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Health insurance news: Legal & General

Legal and General is an insurance company established in 1836. Legal and General Healthcare is a trading name within the Legal and General Group.

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L&G launches guaranteed acceptance over 50s plan Legal & General are to launch a guaranteed acceptance over 50s life insurance plan to people aged 50 to 75. The direct whole of life product is not underwritten and monthly premiums for the policy are guaranteed, which means that they will not increase after the policy starts.
Two thirds over-estimate cost of life cover Two-thirds of people over-estimate the cost of life insurance. Legal & General is concerned that people might avoid taking out protection because they think that it is too expensive.
Legal & General outlines the most important times to think about insurance Legal & General highlights the key life stages at which people need to review their insurance needs
Legal & General pays £110 million in critical illness claims Legal & General critical illness claims figures for 2007: 88.2% of claims paid (up from 83.3%) 7.7% of claims declined for non-disclosure (down from 12.1%) £110 million paid in claims (up from £92.1 million) Average claim is £60,000
Critical risk to pensions Legal & General is urging people to consider the devastating impact that having a critical illness could have on their ability to save into their pension.
Legal & General cuts Whole of Life prices Legal & General has significantly reduced its prices for its Whole of Life Protection Plan, cutting premiums by an average of 6%.
Legal & General celebrates seven years of Family and Personal Income Plan Legal & General launched its Family and Personal Income Plan (FPIP) seven years ago, and in that time over 73,000 families have been covered. FPIP is designed to provide a monthly income for a set period of time in the event of death or critical illness of the policyholder. Historically, family protection has not been given as high a priority as mortgage protection but Legal & General...
L&G reduces rates Legal and General has reduced its rates for term assurance and term assurance plus critical illness insurance For term assurance, 42% of its rates are reduced. For term assurance with critical illness, 32% are reduced.
Cheaper business protection quotes from Legal & General Legal & General has significantly reduced its rates for business protection quotes. Legal & General offers three key types of business protection: Key person Director or Partner share protection Business Loan protection
L&G advise indexation As inflation hits 3.3%, the highest level for many years, Legal & General is advising families with protection insurance to take out an option to mitigate against the potential pitfalls of rising inflation. Many of L&G's policies come with an indexation option, which is linked to the Retail Price Index measure of inflation.
Credit crunch may unravel family finances Legal & General is urging families to protect their mortgage and their lifestyle with the appropriate insurance as the difficulties in the financial markets really begin to bite.
Health insurance companies make customer pledge 26 health insurance companies have signed up to the Customer Impact Scheme, an initiative to provide excellent standards of service to purchasers of income protection and critical illness insurance plans. Each insurer has pledged to:Develop and promote products and services that meet the needs of customers Provide customers with clear information and good service when they buy products Provide...
Tax efficient Life/Pension Term Assurance - No insurer has permanently withdrawn from offering PTA Despite what you may have read on other web sites, in the trade press, national and local papers and heard or seen, NO insurer has yet confirmed they have permanently withdrawn from offering Pension Term Assurance. The following insurers have either told us direct or by an official press release, that their product is suspended from any more new business or enquiries. The suspension will stay...
Nationwide offers Legal & General's insurance From Tuesday 5th February 2008, Nationwide Building Society offers a range of new protection and insurance products from Legal & General. Nationwide Life will no longer write insurance products. The range of products from Legal & General will include:Family Life Insurance Plan - which provides a range of fixed monthly benefits for dependant children if a parent dies Critical...
UK not bothered with income protection Significantly more people insure their possessions than their life, according to Legal & General. In a recent poll, two thirds of people (66%) said that they have home contents insurance compared to just 41% for life insurance. Of equal concern is that more people have mobile phone insurance (22%) versus just 17% who have critical illness cover and 14% for income protection. Mobile phone...
Businesses need income protection Legal & General, a leading insurer, stresses the importance of income protection to small businesses. Bonnie Burns, Legal & General's Protection Product Marketing Director says, “ Business protection is different from individual protection. The main differences are that the business, or the other participants in the business own the policy, and the sums assured are often high.“...
Legal & General's new rates for Term Assurance and Critical Illness Cover As part of Legal & General's long-term commitment to the protection market, the insurer has a reprice on life and critical illness insurance. On electronic rates Term Assurance (Life only)19% reduced65 remain unchanged16% increased Term Assurance with critical illness(guaranteed premiums) 25% reduced45% remain unchanged30% increased Term Assurance with critical...
Legal & General confirms that it pays some claims with non-disclosure Legal & General, the UK's leading critical illness cover insurer has clarified its position on payment of critical illness claims where there has been non-disclosure. Legal & General's approach: Pay a proportion of a claim where there has been inadvertent non-disclosure (whether related or unrelated to the condition claimed for), if the undisclosed information would have resulted...
Customers get blame for critical illness non-disclosure Millions of people are not getting the most out of their critical illness insurance as they are not disclosing key information, according to Legal & General. The insurer claims that while application forms for cover provide "clear, unequivocal warnings" as to the disclosure of conditions, many people are still not making sure their insurance company knows all the relevant...
Britain becoming a high net worth nation Insurer Legal & General predicts that the high net worth sector will become an ever-important area of the life and critical illness market. This is based on the increase in personal wealth through property and business. House prices have tripled in value in the past ten years, resulting in appreciating assets for homeowners. In addition, over half a million people start up their own...

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