Individual Protection

Defaqto has launched its Star Ratings for 2013 for consumers to compare financial products, including life insurance and protection.

The hardest sell

Nicola Culley attempts to discover how to broaden the appeal of term assurance.

The UK has stood out in a global study on attitudes towards medical care and cancer survival.

The top five intermediary platforms will likely show their hand on protection propositions in the second half of the year, a technology and consultancy firm to the major intermediary platforms has reported.

I wonder just what impact RDR will have on the protection industry. There are tiny shafts of light starting to show through in the form of unqualified advisers.

An adviser who helped his customer negotiate a difficult settlement on an old protection policy has been specially recognised at Legal & General's 2012 Business Quality Awards.

Firms distributing 'payment protection' products - such as short-term income protection - must ensure salespeople do not have inappropriate incentives to sell them, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) has stressed in new guidance.

A protection and health insurance specialist is setting up a nationwide adviser network with a view to sweeping up IFAs who have not met the demands of RDR.

The protection industry needs to build on December's G-day sales success, Bright Grey and Scottish Provident has said.