Life Insurance

Engage Mutual has launched an enhanced Over 50s Life Cover Plan which offers policy holders and their families free advice on elderly care from care advice experts, Grace Consulting, together with help in managing a bereavement by directing them to the services of the Bereavement Advice Centre.

Legal & General, the UK's leading protection company, is highlighting the key life stages at which people need to review their protection needs.

Legal & General has increased its financial underwriting limits for life insurance and critical illness cover, which simplifies the underwriting process and leads to policies being issued more quickly.

Protection specialist LV= has announced improvements to its rates across its protection range, with effect from 15th September 2008.

One in 14 of us who have taken out insurance has knowingly misled our insurers when completing application forms, according to research by AXA.

Barclays has launched a new life insurance product to provide customers with affordable and reliable cover.

Legal & General is concerned that people might avoid taking out protection because they think that it is too expensive.

Barclays has signed a deal with Norwich Union for the insurer to provide the bank with life insurance products for its mass market customers.

Fairinvestment.co.uk has discovered that 87 per cent of Brits with an endowment policy believe that it was sold under false pretences.

When it comes to putting a price on their life, the average UK adult believes they are worth £350,000, according to research by the Post Office.

The economic climate may be tough, however, life insurance premiums needn't break the bank. By following a few easy steps moneysupermarket.com shows how you could save up to £4,732.

This month, HSBC celebrates 20 years of providing life insurance and retirement products and services to millions of people across the UK.

Bright Grey, the protection specialist arm of the Royal London Group, is offering a 5% reduction on business protection written from today, Monday 28 July, until 31 October.

Research from moneyfacts.co.uk has revealed the extent to which consumers have benefited from the price war that has engulfed the term assurance market in recent years and warns that some premiums may have bottomed out.

Legal & General has significantly reduced its rates for its Whole of Life Protection Plan, cutting premiums by an average of 6%.