Critical Illness

Severity based protection payments have become more common over the year. Phil Jeynes explains why in his overview of 2011

Fergus Bescoby looks at the insurance implications of this condition which is particularly common in women

Ageas Protect is to contact critical illness customers, including those that have already claimed, to inform them that their terms and conditions have been improved.

Introducing gender-neutral rates will result in premium hikes for life insurance and critical illness (CI), HM Treasury has warned.

Britain will be facing a bill of more than £15bn a year to diagnose and treat cancer in ten years time, new research has suggested.

Bad lifestyle choices such as smoking, poor diet, high alcohol intake and excess weight are responsible for ‘around 40% of all cancers', according to new research.

Ageas Protect has overhauled its critical illness (CI) product to include15 ABI+ condition definitions and extended its relationship with Best Doctors.

Bright Grey and Scottish Provident held a recent summit on the future of critical illness cover. Roger Edwards outlines its conclusions

This genetic illness affects about one in 800 people in the UK. Mary Randell explains how advisers can offer cover for it

My client is just starting out in freelance consultancy after being made redundant. He is a single parent with a 14-year-old daughter and previously had all major protections and private medical insurance (PMI) through work. I will cover him for the usual...