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Health insurance news: Friends Life

Owned by Resolution, a specialist life insurer,which only deals via financial advisers.



Recent news

  • Friends Life cuts critical illness prices Friends LifeFriends Life has made price cuts of up to 6% for sums assured of £30,000 and above on Protect+ critical illness policy.
  • Friends Life 2011 critical illness claims statistics Friends LifeFriends Life paid 90% of claims under its critical illness plans last year.
  • Happy birthday to Friends Life Friends LifeIt is the first birthday of Friends Life, a life business created through the integration of the three life assurance companies owned by the former Friends Provident Group.
  • Who can you rely on when times are tough? Friends LifeA survey by Friends Life shows a major difference between who people would turn to for help in a financial crisis and the extent to which they themselves would be willing to help others. 13% claim they would rely on family or friends for financial support if they were too ill to work, but 64% say they would not be able to afford to help others who came to them for money in the same...
  • Friends Life employees get stuck in to help their local communities Friends LifeEmployees at Friends Life, one of Bristol's largest employers, have been helping out in the local community, assisting with DIY and manual jobs as part of the company's annual community challenge initiative, which helps a large number of local charities, schools and community groups.
  • Nothing says I love you like a separate bank account Friends LifeNearly half of single working women are more likely to say yes to a marriage proposal than a joint bank account with their boyfriend, according to a report from Friends Life.
  • Friends Life developing simple direct products Friends LifeFriends Life is developing non-advised, simplified direct distribution products for later this year.
  • Ride from John O'Groats to Lands End raises thousands for Macmillan Friends LifeThree Friends Life employees have completed a sponsored bike ride from John O'Groats to Lands End to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support.
  • Friends Life launches new group protection proposition Friends LifeFriends Life has relaunched its group protection proposition. It offers a comprehensive product range including group life, group income protection, group critical illness and a flexible benefit offering supported by a range of added-value services aimed at promoting health and preventing illness.
  • Women envisage glass ceiling intact in 2020 Friends LifeThe glass ceiling preventing women from climbing to the upper rungs of the corporate ladder will still be firmly in place at the end of this decade, according to a new report by Friends Life.
  • Graham Gooch takes part in the Salisbury Chance to Shine Friends LifeAt the South Wiltshire County Ground children from a selection of schools in Salisbury were given the chance to meet former England star Graham Gooch.
  • Friends Life employees get stuck in to help their local communities Friends LifeEmployees at Friends Life have been helping out in the local Bristol community, assisting with DIY and manual jobs as part of the company's annual community challenge initiative, which helps a large number of local charities, schools and community groups.
  • Friends Life to sponsor professional cricket fund Friends LifeFriends Life is to become lead sponsor of the Professional Cricketers' Association (PCA) Benevolent Fund. Following a four year existing relationship with the PCA, the insurer will this year strengthen its commitment to the well-being of past, present and future cricketers by offering both an array of support services and a financial donation to the PCA benevolent fund.
  • Friends Life launched Friends LifeFriends Life brings together the UK operations of Friends Provident and the life assurance businesses acquired from Bupa and AXA. Friends Life is the new name for the company with 5 million customers.
  • Friends Life to be the new brand for Resolution Friends LifeFriends Provident is to consolidate all life, income protection and critical illness into a single Friends Life brand for all new business with a new product range developed from a best of breed approach from all Friends Provident, AXA Life and Bupa Health.
  • Friends Life will sell direct Friends LifeResolution is combining Friends Provident, Axa Life and Bupa Health Assurance into Friends Life soon and is not now expected to actively seek other UK buys, although it may consider purchases if offered them.