Friends Life is to extend its group cancer cover policy to companies with 50 employees or more.
Aviva's shareholders have approved the merger with Friends Life in a meeting in London.
Key people from Friends Life and Best Doctors discuss the new Global Treatment service in the latest episode of COVER TV.
Figures from Friends Life have shown that in 2014 men made up 87% of claims for broken bones while women made up 13% of these claims.
The merger between Friends Life and Aviva has been cleared by the regulators, meaning that only the shareholder vote now remains to be cleared.
CIExpert has described Friends Life's changes to its critical illness (CI) product as offering 'a number of significant improvements'.
Friends Life has launched ‘Global Treatment' with Best Doctors as an add-on to its protection policies offering policyholders the option of going abroad for serious illness treatment.
The winners of the annual LifeSearch online awards have been announced with LV= winning five awards including best overall provider.
Aviva has said it expects its acquisition of rival Friends Life to generate extra revenue of £600m over the next two years, including cost savings for the company of £225m.
Friends Life and Virgin Money have launched the first of their planned range of life insurance products.