Critical Illness

Critical Illness

Scottish Widows pays 90.5% of CI claims

Scottish Widows has published its protection claims statistics, which show that more than £219 million was paid out in life and critical illness claims in 2015, equating to an average of more than £4 million per week.

clock 04 May 2016 • 3 min read

Critical Illness

AIG Life: Casey and Thomas exit, Anders joins new distribution structure

Steve Casey and Peter Thomas are no longer with AIG Life as the insurer revealed it has created a new distribution structure which includes the appointment of ex-Friends Life's Mark Anders.

clock 03 May 2016 • 1 min read

Critical Illness

Aegon adds health and wellbeing support to protection policies

Aegon UK has launched a new health and wellbeing support service for protection customers.

clock 26 April 2016 • 1 min read

Critical Illness

Scottish Widows highlights MS Awareness Week

Scottish Widows is highlighting the importance of financial protection to coincide with Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week which starts on 25 April.

clock 25 April 2016 • 2 min read

Critical Illness

Scottish Widows clarifies children's CI cover eligibility

Scottish Widows has clarified that its children's critical illness cover will pay claims from birth.

clock 19 April 2016 • 1 min read

Critical Illness

London & Country extends partnership with CIExpert

Following a successful pilot, London and Country Mortgages (L&C) is extending its partnership with CIExpert to allow for more integration of the critical illness research tool into its sales process.

clock 12 April 2016 • 1 min read

Critical Illness

Why meeting a definition will always be relevant

Alea Risk's Andrew Wibberley enters the debate around declined critical illness claims which do not 'meet the definition' and calls for a wording re-design.

clock 05 April 2016 • 4 min read

Critical Illness

Aegon UK pays 97% of critical illness claims

Aegon UK has today published claims data which shows a total of £116m was paid out in protection claims to 1,500 customers, families and businesses in 2015.

clock 05 April 2016 • 1 min read

Critical Illness

Why 'not meeting the definition' is becoming irrelevant

Following recent stories of declined claims in the Mail on Sunday, Kevin Carr uses lessons from Britpop to argue why insurers should pay out rather than say a claim does not 'meet the definition.'

clock 31 March 2016 • 3 min read

Critical Illness

Protection sales 'strong' in Q4 2015

Protection sales were ‘strong' in the last quarter of 2015, according to exclusive analysis from Equifax Touchstone.

clock 21 March 2016 • 1 min read