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LV= has enhanced its critical illness (CI) cover with changes including the addition of partial payments for minor heart attack and stroke and an increase in maximum age.

Adviser network Openwork is launching a new marketing support drive aimed at helping owner-advisers build their brand identity.

Scottish Widows has published details of its life and critical illness (CI) claims with an average of nearly £4 million paid out every week during 2012.

Bupa has announced they have teamed up with AIG to develop a range of products and services for the travel insurance market.

Outgoing Bank of England governor Sir Mervyn King is to appear on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs on Sunday.

Legal & general has marked National family Week by pointing out the need to the financial value parents contribute to their home when assessing a family's need for financial protection.

Ashwin Mistry is set to become president of the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) in 2014.

Medical researchers have pinpointed a genetic marker for sporadic breast cancer which accounts for 80% of all cases.

Life assurance should be extended to dependents so that should a tragedy occur, employees have some financial resources to support their family, Punter Southall Health & Protection Consulting (PSHPC) has said.

Tenet has developed an online anti-money laundering service to combat fraud, eliminate paperwork and enable advisers to process transactions more efficiently.