CIExpert on Guardian critical illness changes

Earlier this month, we exclusively revealed that Guardian had decided to launch a more competitive combined life and critical illness (CI) cover option to sit alongside its stand-alone life and CI products, alongside a raft of changes to its existing proposition. Today the offering has gone live and is available on IRESS, iPipeline and LifeQuote. According to CIExpert director Alan Lakey, the CI changes - which includes the addition of three new full payout conditions as well as some market standardisation - the changes are ‘significant'. Guardian, which launched to advisers in May...