Legal and General publish claims data

April 4th, 2008 Posted in News

Legal and General one of the UK’s leading protection insurers has recently released their claim figures for critical illness insurance over the 2007 year. L&G say they paid out £110 million in critical illness insurance claims over the year. The L&G figures show evidence that progress is being made in bringing down the level of declined claims, which is good news for both the insurer and the customer L&G report that in 2007 they paid 88.2% of claims submitted  (up from 83.3%) they declined for non-disclosure 7.7% of claims (down from 12.1%) the average claim paid was for £60,000 and  the critical illness insurance claims were primarily for cancer, terminal illness, heart attack, stroke and Multiple Sclerosis.L&G said they also paid out £179 million on life insurance claims, this represented 96.3% of claims received.

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