Life insurance

Less than half (48%) of homeowners have a policy and four in five renting households do not have life insurance, and research by Aviva has found.

Vitality has seen a 16% rise in profits to £42.8m for its life and health insurance businesses, while combined new business sales declined 2% to £105m in the 12 months to June 2015.

Marsh has reached an agreement to acquire Jelf, with the entire share capital of Jelf being bought at 215p per Jelf Share, for a total price of £258m for all shares.

There are clear benefits to placing life policies in trust, but only a small number actually end up there. Kirsty Tanner discusses what the industry can do to change this

Omnilife has been granted a Standard & Poor's rating for the first time since its launch into the UK insurance market.

Life insurance has been placed sixth on a list of signs becoming an adult, being seen as a sign of becoming an adult by 21% of respondents to a survey for Beagle Street.

Friends Life, part of the Aviva Group, is now offering counselling and carer support services to customers taking out protection cover.

COVER magazine is proud to announce the shortlists for the Cover Excellence Awards 2015, which will be held in London in October.

Aviva's has released some of the contents of its archives from its 309 year history, including adverts and in-house materials, with an 1891 Norwich Union staff magazine calling the insurer ‘a fairy in disguise'.

Canada Life has returned to the UK individual protection market with four life plans, two offering a critical illness add-on.