Life insurance

Aegon is the latest insurer to sign up to the Protection Distributors Group's (PDG) funeral payment pledge, to help bereaved families meet the funeral costs of their loved ones.

Protection product sales in Q1 2017 rose by 6.6% (£8.7 million) to £140.2 million, returning to the peak levels of 2016, according to analysis from Equifax Touchstone shared exclusively with COVER.

Legal & General has launched a Buy Now life insurance policy with Direct Life which will be initially available on Confused.com.

Scottish Widows Protect has added Synaptic Webline's multi-benefit quoting service to its Scottish Widows Protect offering.

People with HIV who took out life insurance between 2009 and 2013 should review their policy, Unusual Risks has urged.

Here is the story of Mrs K from London, who had to make a claim on the life insurance policy of her partner.

Scottish Widows has published its protection claims statistics which show that it paid out 99.38% of life claims in 2016, an increase of 0.5% compared with 2015, and 93.2% of critical illness claims, an increase of 2.7%.

Zurich is the latest provider to sign up to the Protection Distributor Group's (PDG) Funeral Payment Pledge to help protection customers with funeral costs.

Life expectancy of 20-year-olds starting treatment for HIV has increased by around a decade to age 78 in the EU and North America due to improvements in treatment.

BGL Group has today announced the signing of a five-year contract with Virgin Money to provide its new life insurance solution to customers of the bank.