€2.8m paid out in death benefits on 35 farmers

Figures produced for FBD Financial Solutions by Irish Life show €2.8m was paid in respect of death claims on the lives of 35 farmers last year, and a further €884,000 went to 14 farmers for specified illness cover claims.

The average age of death was 62 years, and 94% of claims were in respect of men,

Death claims included €500,000 paid to the dependants of a farmer in his mid-40s who died of heart failure, and whose life policy had been in force for little more than three years.