Thinking that ‘it won’t happen to me’ is not going to help you, your fellow shareholders or your family if you are proved wrong. We all die and hospitals are full of people who also thought it might never happen to them.

Only 5% of businesses in the UK have any form of Business Protection Insurance according to Legal & General’s research.

In the UK, one if three people develop cancer in their lives and one in four will die from it. In total in 2004, 152857 people died from from cancer in the UK. There are 289000 new cases of cancer diagnosed each year.
Source - National statistics online and cancer research website 2006.

In the UK, the lifetime risk for breast cancer in women is one in nine. In 2005 45500 women were diagnosed with breat cancer.
Source - Cancer research website 2006

In 2005 in the UK, 1 in 5 men and 1 in 6 women died from heart disease
Source - British Heart Foundation

Someone has a heart attack in the UK every 2 minutes and almost 2.6 million peole have heart and circulatory disease.
Source - British Heart Foundation.

In the UK one person has a stroke every five minutes
Source - The Stroke Association website.

Every year, at least one in 13 deaths in the European Union is likely to be related to excess weight.
Source - Infant and Dietetic Foods Association.

Over 1.65 million people will be off work due to illness each year for 6 months or more