Life insurance

An estimated 1.6 million (21%) British parents haven't got life insurance, potentially because they can't deal with thoughts of their own death, according to research from the University of Sheffield and comparethemarket.com.

Aegon UK has launched a new digital document service to speed up protection applications for advisers and their clients.

The number of people who have died without making a will has more than doubled in the last five years, according to Citizens Advice.

VitalityLife's Deepak Jobanputra discusses innovations to whole of life.

IRESS's Andrew Simon take a closer look at the perceived wisdom that 75% of protection cases go straight through without any need for further underwriting.

Aegon increased its protection sales in the UK by 18% according to the insurer's QI results.

Income protection sales increased by 10.7% during 2015 according to Swiss Re's Term and Health Watch 2016.

Almost two-thirds of protection experts have said that the use of E-signatures will have a positive impact on protection sales, according to a poll.

Scottish Widows has published its protection claims statistics, which show that more than £219 million was paid out in life and critical illness claims in 2015, equating to an average of more than £4 million per week.

A record £3.6bn was paid last year in individual protection insurance claims, the equivalent of £10m a day, according to research from the Association of British Insurers (ABI)