Award winning cover from £6 per month.

Extra protection for you and your family.

Our Critical illness product is designed to pay out a fixed cash amount if you're diagnosed with one of the illnesses covered by our policy, and are eligible to claim within your chosen period of cover. 

Did you know:

  • Approximately 89,000 people under the age of 65 will have a heart attack in the UK this year. Up to half of these people won’t return to work.1
  • In 2009 we paid 2,149 claims. The average pay out was £70,331 and the largest was £750,000.
  • The most common cause of cancer for men aged between 20-39 is testicular.2
  • Around 125 women diagnosed with breast cancer every day in the UK.3

Our critical illness product is a level term assurance plan with critical illness cover included. This means that the policy will provide a cash sum to help you and your family financially if you were to die or be diagnosed with one of 39 critical illnesses that we cover. 

Before you buy critical illness cover you should read the Key Features Document carefully, to help ensure the policy meets your needs.

 

1 Source: British Heart Foundation 2005
2 Source: Cancer Research UK August 2010
3  Source: Cancer Research UK March 2010

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Why choose Legal & General?

  • In 2009 we paid out 93.6% in critical illness claims - a record breaking £152 million.
  • We won Critical illness Provider of the year at the Financial Adviser Life & Pensions Awards 2010.
  • We provide cover for 39 critical illnesses.
  • Critical illness cover for your children is included at no extra charge (conditions apply).