Critical Illness

Network Openwork has teamed up with CIExpert to promote the use of its knowledgebase to help members boost their protection business.

The four most common cancers, breast, prostate, colorectal and lung, are affecting 80,000 people diagnosed before they turn 45, research has revealed.

Private medical insurance (PMI) is the top health & protection product consumers in Western Europe would consider buying followed by critical illness (CI) cover, a survey has found.

Zurich's changes to its critical illness policy are ‘all positive' and will help Zurich maintain its position in the market, CIExpert has said.

Aegon's upgrade to its critical illness (CI) offering whilst adjusting to the model wording changes introduced by the ABI in December 2014 are overall ‘positive', CIExpert has said.

Zurich has announced changes to its critical illness (CI) cover - changing definitions for cancer, multiple sclerosis (MS) and heart attacks.

Alan Lakey picks holes in the insurer practice of 'condition counting' in critical illness policies.

Munich Re's Julie Scott discusses how the critical illness industry could break the cycle of competing on conditions.

The critical illness market remains driven by definitions as 2015 sees insurers facing an ABI deadline and advisers with a need for 'complex' knowledge, writes Thomas Smith

There are 1.8m cancer patients with another long term health condition, research from Macmillan Cancer Support has revealed.