Critical Illness

Shorter people are more likely to have coronary heart disease, research from the University of Leicester has found.

Aviva's latest changes to its critical illness (CI) policy has bought it into line with ‘market leaders' Friends Life and Old Mutual Wealth, CIExpert has said.

Cancer survival rates in the UK are at or behind levels other European countries had achieved by the late 1990s, analysis by Macmillan Cancer Support has found.

CIExpert has described Friends Life's changes to its critical illness (CI) product as offering 'a number of significant improvements'.

Friends Life has launched ‘Global Treatment' with Best Doctors as an add-on to its protection policies offering policyholders the option of going abroad for serious illness treatment.

The social care needs of cancer patients are not being met with 11% of patients left constantly or often housebound due to a lack of support, a report for Macmillan has found.

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.

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

LV= has said that two out of ten (19%) of its male cancer critical illness claims relate to prostate and testicular cancer while ovarian cancer accounts for nearly one in 15 (7%) female critical illness cancer claims.