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LV= has announced it is offering a 5% discount on premium rates for a number of its protection products.

Aviva has urged consumers to check their policies as over the past five years it has paid out over £2.2 million in critical illness payments to customers who didn't initially realise they could claim.

LV= is launching a ‘risk reality' tool for advisers to demonstrate the likelihood of clients suffering long-term sickness or dying prematurely, which can be used as part of the protection sales process.

Aviva has completed the sale of its US life and annuities business for £500m more than it originally announced.

Private hospital groups have been unfairly blocked from defending themselves by the Competition Commission (CC), a Competition Appeals Tribunal has ruled.

Zurich has revealed it paid out 94% of income protection (IP) claims in the first half 0f 2013.

PruProtect has announced enhancements to its Relevant Life Cover policy including an increase in the maximum sum assured and index-linking policies to keep pace with inflation.

An employment tribunal has ruled that stopping the payment of sickness absence benefit once an employee turns 55 is age discrimination.

FirstAssist Insurance Services Limited has announced it is to be renamed Cigna Insurance Services (Europe) Limited.

Advisers could actually be confusing clients in the post-Retail Distribution Review (RDR) world as their pursuit to find ‘right product' gives customers too many options, delegates heard.