L&G to offer online term assurance

Legal & General is to offer consumers and intermediaries term assurance online. Following a pilot project launched with a group of intermediaries over the past year, the company is now ready to go live with the service. The consumer version of the site is available now, while IFAs can expect to use the facility by the end of the month. Diane Buckley, e-commerce development director at Legal & General, said following feedback from the pilot, the intermediary version of the site will contain additional functions. She said: "The advisor site will also include critical illness cover, ter...