Insurance

Zurich paid 89% of critical illness (CI) claims received in the first six months of the year with payments amounting to £43.7m.

Scottish Provident paid 91% of critical illness (CI) claims during the first half of the year.

Avelo Exchange has added Engage Mutual's guaranteed 50 plus life cover plan to its service becoming the first to do so in the intermediary market.

6,500 women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer every year, making it the fifth most common cancer in women, according to cancer research. Mary Randell outlines its insurance ramifications.

Protecting the biggest purchase a person is likely to make should be a key decision. Owain Thomas asks whether mortgage payment protection insurance is still a worthwhile option.

LV= paid 93% of its income protection (IP) and critical illness (CI) claims in the year to the end of June.

Bright Grey paid 90% of critical illness claims in the first half of the year.

The term ‘avocational' describes activities taken up outside one's regular work or profession. Asking life and health insurance applicants whether they participate or plan to participate in hazardous sports, for example, is standard practice.

Businesses are seeing budgets stretched in many ways, but, as Owain Thomas found, advisers who are creative with solutions could produce a windfall for themselves in the group critical illness market

Aegon has increased its medical underwriting limits for its life and critical illness (CI) protection proposition.