Insurance

Leadbay's parent company, Add Momentum Holdings, has joined with the All About Group to create the country's largest financial services lead generation company.

Legal & General is enhancing its critical illness (CI) product to include four new illnesses and wider definitions for eleven conditions.

Private medical insurance (PMI) complaints to the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) increased by 27% last year.

LV= has launched a direct to customer cut down life insurance product.

Women are not protecting themselves against the worst despite being more financially important to their families than ever, new research says.

Aviva has reduced the number of doctor reports requested for life insurance applications by 60%.

Aegon has released a new protection claims guide with the aim of reducing non-disclosure and helping advisers manage their clients' expectations.

Critical illness (CI) payouts are continuing to rise and non-disclosure rates are also improving, new figures show.

Friends Provident received 624 claims last year; of these 578 (92.6%) were paid and 46 (7.4%) were declined.

Legal and General has announced a guarantee to match any like-for-like competitor quotes for high net worth business.