Critical Illness

Legal & General (L&G) has launched a pilot scheme offering 2 hours of free legal support to terminal and critical illness claimants.

Survival rates have continued to improve for most of the common cancers, the Office of National Statistics (ONS) has revealed.

Critical illness insurance has unexpectedly become cheaper for many young women this year, according to CIExpert's data tracking.

Young black women in the UK diagnosed with breast cancer aged 40 or younger have poorer overall survival than white women in the same age group, according to a Cancer Research UK study.

Friends Life has urged women of all ages to ensure that they are ‘breast aware', as women under the age of forty accounted for 25% of all breast cancer claims it paid out last year.

More people are being diagnosed with and dying from kidney cancer in England today, compared to 10 years ago according to new figures released.

Cancer is costing countries across the European Union an estimated €126 billion in costs including healthcare and productivity losses, research has revealed.

A couple is pursuing national IFA firms Positive Solutions and 2plan Wealth Management for what they claim was negligent advice to invest in high risk unregulated investments - including using money they had received from a critical illness (CI) payout....

Aviva has urged consumers to check their policies as over the past five years it has paid out over £2.2 million in critical illness payments to customers who didn't initially realise they could claim.

To help raise awareness during Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October, Aegon has shared previously unpublished figures on breast cancer claims in 2012.