Critical Illness

Critical Illness

CIExpert analyses Aviva critical illness cover changes

Aviva, fresh from its substantial upgrade last November - when it absorbed market-leading Friends Life and introduced tiers of cover - has added further enhancements to its impressively comprehensive plans, writes CIExpert's Alan Lakey.

clock 18 September 2017 • 2 min read

Critical Illness

Aviva doubles child CI cancer payout to £50k

Aviva has enhanced its Life Insurance+ and Critical Illness+ products by making changes to four definitions which centre on the most common payment areas of heart conditions, strokes and cancers.

clock 18 September 2017 • 1 min read

Critical Illness

Aegon reminds parents to check critical illness policies

Aegon is reminding parents to check their critical illness (CI) policies and has shared information for child CI claims since 2007 in recognition of childhood cancer awareness month.

clock 06 September 2017 • 1 min read

Critical Illness

Old Mutual Wealth splits £16bn multi-asset business from OMGI

Ahead of planned 2018 listing

clock 04 September 2017 • 1 min read

Critical Illness

Four ways to broach the protection conversation

Johnny Timpson suggests four ways to kick off the financial protection conversation in the latest instalment in a series of monthly articles from Scottish Widows.

clock 31 August 2017 • 4 min read

Critical Illness

CI Statement of Best Practice: The "early stages" of significant change?

Munich Re gives its views on the early stage cancer debate as part of the ABI's CI Statement of Best Practice consultation.

clock 21 August 2017 • 4 min read

Critical Illness

The development of CI cover

As part of COVER's 20th Anniversary series, Fiona Murphy talks to Scottish Widows' Johnny Timpson about the critical illness market.

clock 14 August 2017 • 1 min read

Critical Illness

Aegon pays 95% of critical illness claims

Aegon paid 95% of individual critical illness (CI) claims in the first half of 2017, maintaining the same level of CI claims that were paid for the whole of 2016.

clock 09 August 2017 • 1 min read

Critical Illness

Analysis: Intermediaries criticise early details of ABI CI Statement of Best Practice

Industry figures have said that the Association of British Insurers (ABI) Statement of Best Practice for Critical lllness Cover consultation has not yet involved intermediaries in a meaningful way as media reports have indicated that proposals currently...

clock 08 August 2017 • 6 min read

Critical Illness

Critical illness cover? Let's kill it off

Ian Sawyer, managing director of Assured Futures, puts forward some controversial views on the relevance of critical illness cover compared to income protection.

clock 07 August 2017 • 3 min read