Legal & General has revealed that nearly two thirds (60%) of its critical illness claims during 2014 were cancer related.
Half of the UK population will develop cancer at some point in their lives, a new forecast from Cancer Research UK has shown.
The Right Mortgage and Protection Network has endorsed the use of critical illness (CI) data site CIExpert for all its advisers.
Since 2009, 38,600 stroke patients have reached hospital within 3 hours of symptoms appearing, improving their recovery chances, Public Health England (PHE) has revealed.
Zurich has announced that it paid over 91% of its critical illness claims in 2014 to 750 customers with payments amounting to over £63.1 million.
Cancer related deaths could be ‘effectively eliminated' except in late old age by 2050 if the current trends in treatment and prevention continue, a report from UCL has found.
The protection industry has responded to the ABI's best practice guidelines on critical illness definitions.
The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has updated its guidelines on how critical illness (CI) policies should be described and explained to consumers, in a move it hopes will ultimately lead to fewer declined claims.
Ross Campbell writes about the challenges posed by increased diagnosis of Thyroid Cancer and the potential implications for critical illness (CI) policies.
IFA Compliance has announced that it will now make CIExpert available to all adviser firms who are customers.