Zurich

Zurich has provided over 700,000 annual protection statements to customers since 2007.

Life and general insurance arms combined

Zurich has reported a 20% increase in applications for critical illness policies during the first 9 months of 2016, with over 30,000 new policies sold during this period.

Scottish Widows has introduced electronic General Practitioner (GP) reports into its protection policy underwriting process to make it simpler and quicker to obtain customers' medical information from their GP practice.

There is 'high untapped demand' for income protection cover, according to research from Zurich exclusively shared with COVER.

Zurich UK Life has reported a 15% increase in its operating profit compared to the same time last year, according to its half year results for 2016.

Only one in five 5 UK respondents to a global survey have income protection cover in the event of becoming too ill or disabled to work, according to research from Zurich.

CIExpert has revealed that Zurich has refreshed its critical illness plans- adding three 100% conditions twenty additional payment conditions.

Zurich Insurance Group has begun a process to bring its life and non-life insurance business closer together with a restructure of its senior management and businesses globally.

Openwork and Zurich have signed an agreement that will see the insurer divest its 25% shareholding in the network within the next four years.