Cigna Insurance Services is to enter the individual life insurance market this year, the company has announced.
Aviva is now offering £15,000 of free life cover for parents through all channels, including advisers.
The proportion of critical illness complaints upheld by the Financial Ombudsman Service rose by 1% to 25% in the July-September 2014 quarter.
The total premiums earned from life assurance premiums and income protection has risen by over £100millionin the second quarter of 2014, according to ONS figures.
Direct life has launched a fully comparable buy now life insurance policy, available to advisers through Direct Life's LifeQuote service and direct to the public through Confused.com.
Individual protection sales declined significantly during 2013; Swiss Re has found.
Three-quarters (74%) of gay men and women take out Life Insurance to protect their home or mortgage, research has found.
Ageas Protect has entered the relevant life insurance market with the launch of a new individual proposition.
Aviva has disclosed it paid out 99.3% of life insurance claims and 92.9% of critical illness claims during 2013.
Foresters Friendly Society is now providing Life Insurance cover to Global Connections a group of agencies of charity workers with members based both in the UK and overseas.