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Individual Protection
The Income Protection Task Force is now proposing two new areas for the industry to consider backing as it progresses the Seven Families (7F) project, COVER can exclusively reveal.
21 February 2017
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2 min read
Individual Protection
Openwork has introduced 'Personalised Risk Reports' that help advisers to emphasise the importance of protection to clients taking out a mortgage.
21 February 2017
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1 min read
Employee Benefits
Employees in open plan offices are most likely to have unhealthy behaviours at work that are common contributors to many types of cancer, according to Canada Life Group Insurance.
21 February 2017
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4 min read
Employee Benefits
Ellipse is now covering cohabitant partners of employees opting for spouse cover as part of a raft of changes on the insurer's group critical illness (group CI) product.
21 February 2017
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1 min read
Critical Illness
Scottish Widows has updated the critical illness definitions for Scottish Widows Protect, COVER can exclusively reveal.
20 February 2017
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2 min read
Critical Illness
Alan Lakey, director of CIExpert analyses the latest changes from Scottish Widows to its Protect critical illness product.
20 February 2017
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2 min read
Long Term Care
Council tax rises in 2017/18 will not bring in enough money to prevent the need for further deep cuts to services such as social care, the Local Government Association (LGA) has warned.
20 February 2017
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3 min read
Business
Aegon has announced an 11% increase in protection sales in its Q4 2016 results, compared to the previous year.
19 February 2017
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1 min read
Employee Benefits
Simplyhealth and Denplan announced the merger of the two brands at a rebranding event in central London this week.
17 February 2017
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1 min read
Employee Benefits
The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has called for the government to encourage employers to issue an annual 'protection statement' to their employees in its Green Paper response.
17 February 2017
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2 min read