Life insurance

E-cigarettes are likely to be beneficial to UK public health according to a Royal College of Physicians report.

Aviva has published its claim statistics for 2015 revealing that the insurer paid out 98.9% of life insurance claims, 92.5% of critical illness 92.4% of income protection claims.

Aegon UK has today published claims data which shows a total of £116m was paid out in protection claims to 1,500 customers, families and businesses in 2015.

Protection sales were ‘strong' in the last quarter of 2015, according to exclusive analysis from Equifax Touchstone.

After 30 years, a protection provider finally removes a contentious sentence of small print from its term assurance policy writes Roger Edwards.

Legal & General has upgraded its term assurance products and terminal illness cover (TIC).

Confused.com has become the first comparison site to launch LV= QuickCover ‘buy now' life insurance exclusively to its customers.

Specialist broker Pulse has joined the First Complete protection panel to take referrals from First Complete ARs who cannot find life cover for their clients because of the nature of their work.

Aegon UK's latest claim statistics have revealed that 28% of life claims are paid early under the terminal illness definition.

LifeSearch revealed an 8% increase in profits in its financial results for the year ending August 2015 at its annual awards.