Individual Protection

PruProtect has released an offline app for advisers, aimed at both adviser education and customer needs assessment.

Bright Grey has launched its relevant life plan as a separate product outside its business protection menu.

In Asia's ASEAN region, life insurers are looking for ways to reach budget-conscious ‘do-it-yourselfers' of all generations. Peter Tan examines one company's successful cultivation strategy.

CIExpert has hailed LV='s upgrade to its critical illness (CI) plans as the first serious attempt at a hybrid approach between traditional CI and severity-based payments.

LV= has enhanced its critical illness (CI) cover with changes including the addition of partial payments for minor heart attack and stroke and an increase in maximum age.

CIExpert has analyses recent changes to Bright grey's critical illness definitions and approved of the insurers clarification of definitions.

Bright Grey has upgraded its critical illness definition for cancer for personal and business protection menu plans.

Exclusions and removals from Critical Illness plans can cause confusions in the future, Alan Lakey explains.

Businesses across the UK are exposing themselves to serious financial risk through the absence of share protection insurance, according to Legal & General.

Holloway Friendly has launched a 24 hour advice and information service for its income protection policy holders.