PruProtect has called for protection insurance to be made compulsory and said it is already seeing signs of advisers switching to protection to anticipate the Retail Distribution Review (RDR).
The Association of British Insurers (ABI) this week revealed that nine in every ten claims made under a critical illness (CI) policy in 2010 was paid by the insurer.
Critical illness (CI) and life insurance claims payments reached almost £2bn last year, according to figures published by the Association of British Insurers (ABI).
The insurance industry made a total contribution of £10.4bn to the Exchequer, a report from the Association of British Insurers (ABI) and PWC has revealed.
An insurance fraud police unit is to be set-up, paid for through a police-private sector partnership.
Businesses are seeing budgets stretched in many ways, but, as Owain Thomas found, advisers who are creative with solutions could produce a windfall for themselves in the group critical illness market
HM Treasury (HMT) is suggesting simplified financial products should be defined as sellable without advice.
The middle classes should pay the first £35,000 of their old age care and be encouraged to take out insurance to cover costs, according to reports.
Failure to act on the Dilnot Commission would be 'catastrophic', according to the ABI, Society for Later Life Advisers (SOLLA) and other bodies in the long term care (LTC) sector.
Jonathan Rees, director general of the Government Equalities Office, has reassured insurers there will not be a ban on age-based insurance pricing in the near future.