Life insurance

Legal & General has launched an online calculator that provides instant quotations for businesses looking to provide group life and group income protection policies for their employees.

Legal & General has today announced it has improved its financial underwriting criteria for customers taking out life insurance and critical illness cover.

Canada Life Group Insurance has launched a newly focused sales team to support advisers who work with small firms' automatic enrolment solutions.

Global premiums in the life market are expected to grow by around 4% in real terms in 2014 and 2015, according to Swiss Re.

Allianz Group has reported growth in revenues and new business in its life and health insurance business in its 2013 third quarter results.

Lifesearch is raising awareness of the perception gap between the number of protection claims people believe are paid; compared to the actual number of claims that are paid out.

PruProtect has published its first set of paid claim statistics since it came to the UK market in 2007.

Smokers could 'radically' reduce the cost of combined life and critical illness (CI) cover if they kicked the habit, new research has found.

Andrew Tripp, a former chairman of AMII, has launched new PMI and protection provider ESMI, which he claims will ‘revolutionise' health insurance.

Just under two-thirds of women have never taken out life insurance cover, according to new research from Friends Life.