Aviva

First-time UK parents spend more than £492 million each year preparing for the arrival of their first baby but just one in five have life cover, new research has found.

Aviva has gone beyond ABI definitions with enhancements to its critical illness (CI) heart attack coverage, CIExpert has said.

Aviva has enhanced its heart attack definition on new critical illness (CI) policies to pay out on the diagnosis of a heart attack regardless of severity.

Aviva has disclosed it paid out 99.3% of life insurance claims and 92.9% of critical illness claims during 2013.

In recent years, the individual PMI market has seen flat growth. How will the market develop to combat this and where is it going next?

Best Doctors and Aviva Life & Pensions Ireland Limited have announced an exclusive agreement.

Aviva has launched a specialist protection team to offer a tailored service for protection cases with high levels of cover and large premiums.

Protection markets are seeing a new wave of technology and innovations from which advisers can benefit. Ian McKenna highlights a trust service.

Aviva has broadened its eligibility criteria so all employees within an organisation that has an Aviva group income protection (GIP) policy will have access to its Employee Assistance programme (EAP).

The burden of global cancer is rising and there is a "real need" to focus on preventing it through tackling smoking, obesity and drinking, says the World Health Organisation (WHO).