life assurance

The protection market has seen widespread growth, increasing by 4.1%, Swiss Re's Term & Health Watch 2015 report has found.

Aviva has launched Aviva Life Protection Solutions (ALPS) a new end to end platform for advisers offering a faster ‘quote and apply' system than before.

The insurer Beagle Street has released 500 origami dogs made from £10 notes onto the streets of London to highlight consumers spending too much on life insurance.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is set to be heavily criticised over its decision to leak details of an upcoming insurance probe to a national newspaper, inadvertently causing shares in several major life companies to plummet, according to reports....

The changes in income drawdown after April mean that annuitants sold single life policies may take out life insurance to cover their spouse, LifeQuote has said.

Leaked documents from the upcoming 2015 Budget have shown that the threshold for inheritance tax (IHT) is set to rise for the first time since 2009.

Legal & General (L&G) has launched an online trust hub to simplify the process of setting up a trust for protection policy holders.

Aviva paid out £513m on claims in 2014, an increase on the 2013 figure of £505m as it released its annual claims statistics.

VitalityLife paid £25m in 2014 to customers claiming on life serious illness and income protection policies, an increase of 66% compared to 2013.

VitalityLife has promoted Deepak Jobanputra, formerly product and actuarial director, as deputy CEO.