Individual Protection

Defaqto has published a free guide highlighting opportunities in the critical illness sector for advisers.

Holloway Friendly has launched a new adviser website including a range of tools to aid the application process.

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

Zurich has announced that it is planning to return to the direct insurance market in the UK later this year in a strategic partnership with its subsidiary Endsleigh.

Now in his eighties, Dr Marius Barnard is still campaigning to improve medical and financial health through insurance. Edward Murray talks to the father of critical illness policies.

Stakeholders within the life assurance market need to work together to tackle the ongoing problem of cancellation and persistency rates, a national IFA has urged.

Aegon has increased its medical underwriting limits for its life and critical illness (CI) protection proposition.

Zurich has amended its critical illness (CI) plans and produced a multi-media pack to help advisers promote the benefits of the product's cover.

Assureweb has added a whole of life quotation portal to its service.