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Beagle Street saw its highest sales of life insurance over the last two years during the night Madonna fell from the stage at the BRIT Awards 2015.

Legal & General (L&G) has seen its UK protection premiums increase 6% to £1.047bn in 2014.

Health insurance, life cover and childcare vouchers have increased in value among UK workers - with contributory pension schemes declining in popularity, research has found.

Aegon has revealed it paid 98% of life claims, 95% of terminal illness claims, 93% of critical illness (CI) claims and 92% of income protection claims during 2014.

The government has accepted a recommendation to investigate the increase in the number of sick or disabled people sent by Work Capability Assessments (WCA) to a Support Group.

SimplyBiz will be advocating the use of CIExpert by their members to enhance their protection business in a series of protection-focused events across the country.

Prostate cancer is the most common reason for male claims for cancer, Legal & General (L&G) has revealed.

Seven Families has reported that the protection industry saw a rise in income protection (IP) enquiries towards the end of 2014.

Unum has enhanced its group critical illness offering by adding seven medical conditions to the cover.

Collective claims data to the end of 2013 has now been added to the Finance & Technology Research Centre (F&TRC)'s research platform.