Old Mutual Wealth has expanded its critical illness (CI) plan ‘Protect' to 65 conditions and cover for all types of heart attack, vascular disease and extended cover for strokes.
CIExpert has announced enhancements including the addition of four past providers to the database, meaning advisers can analyse 40 providers with over 250 policies when re-broking an critical illness existing policy.
More than a thousand people will be diagnosed with cancer everyday in the UK in December 2016 pushing the NHS to 'the limit', according to analysis from Macmillan Cancer Support.
Dr Marius Barnard, the founder of critical illness insurance, died this morning at the age of 87.
Cancer has accounted for 50% of all male critical illness (CI) claims with a quarter of those claims for prostate cancer this year, Aegon's claim statistics have revealed.
Alan Lakey analyses premium adjustments on CI policies in the wake of the Gender Directive
Rebroking CI policies can be difficult, with advisers having to ensure they have the right processes in place to show they are working in the best interest of the client. Adam Higgs points to the improvements made in the field
Younger women are still not financially protecting themselves against breast cancer, the most common cancer in the UK, Friends Life has warned.
iPipeline has announced that critical illness (CI) is now available via its new indicative underwriting decision tool - XRAE, which is available to all Assureweb portal users.
The proportion of critical illness complaints upheld by the Financial Ombudsman Service rose by 1% to 25% in the July-September 2014 quarter.