A third of UK workers said that their family’s financial security would be largely impacted if they were injured or experienced a major health problem, according to a new study from LV=.

Life insurance claims rose by 17% in 2020 at protection provider Aegon.

Over 6,000 life, critical illness and income protection customers have received payments from protection provider Zurich in 2020, a rise of 23% on the previous year.

Aegon has revealed that 1 in 5 of its Critical Illness claims in 2019 were due to breast cancer.