Individual Protection
Critical Illness
Scottish Provident and Bright Grey have amended their critical illness products to include five new definitions and two reclassifications of conditions.
23 May 2011
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2 min read
Whole of Life
Insurers must pay life insurance claims in four weeks following the ABI's decision to slash its guidance time for the process.
23 May 2011
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2 min read
Income Protection
The National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) will not provide a gateway to the selling of protection products, according to think tank Reform.
20 May 2011
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2 min read
Income Protection
A third (33%) of UK households could not cope financially if they lost their main income yet only 7% of the population has income protection (IP), according to research.
19 May 2011
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1 min read
Service
In the first of a series of planned announcements over the next six weeks, Bright Grey and Scottish Provident have revealed their sales teams will be promoting each others products.
18 May 2011
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1 min read
Critical Illness
Unum has ceased writing new business in the individual critical illness (CI) market.
18 May 2011
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1 min read
Income Protection
Defaqto has said it believes short term income protection (IP) products are likely to become the replacement for payment protection insurance (PPI).
13 May 2011
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2 min read
Critical Illness
I treat life and critical illness as fairly commoditised products for perfectly healthy people aged under 35. Can I do more to help them in this area?
13 May 2011
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4 min read
Critical Illness
With changes afoot in the critical illness market, Owain Thomas asks if its time for the sector to put aside its differences and move forward
13 May 2011
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7 min read
Income Protection
The fit note is not reducing absence yet as sickness time off increased to 190 million lost working days at a cost of £17bn to employers last year, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has said.
12 May 2011
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2 min read
