Aegon reminds parents to check critical illness policies

  Of all the CI claims for children received by Aegon in the last 10 years, 67% were for cancer. Since 2007, 30% of childhood cancer claims were for brain tumours, 25% were for Leukaemia and the remainder were for other forms of cancer. In 2016, cancer accounted for 83% of CI claims for children. Simon Jacobs, head of underwriting and claims strategy at Aegon, said: "In the last 10 years we have paid a total of 84 claims for Child CI. These claims have included all ages from children under one to teenagers of 17. "Thankfully the number of families having to make a claim like thi...