Life insurance

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.

The average amount HIV positive people are insuring themselves for has increased to an average of £137,192, a survey for Unusual Risks has found.

Zurich UK paid 92% of critical illness (CI) claims made in the first half of 2015, and 82% of income protection claims, the insurer's claims statistics have revealed.

Non-advised life insurance broker Protect Line has joined TenetLime's network.

Four in ten parents with children under the age of 18 do not have any life insurance, a survey for Sainsbury's Bank Life Insurance has found.

British expatriates can get life insurance products from 33% of UK insurers, a survey by Unusual Risks has found.

Payingtoomuch's managing director Michael Ward has identified key failings in the protection industry - stating that the value chain is ‘all wrong'.