Individual Protection

Bright Grey has added to its critical illness cover for personal and business protection menu plans with changes to definitions. It has also increased its limit for life cover.

The Gold Standard Awards 2012 are now open for entries.

As providers increasingly look to partial payments on critical illness policies, Phil Jeynes warns advisers to be careful in their comparisons.

The gender-neutral pricing saga could just be unnecessary drama, according to Exeter Family Friendly.

The Department of Health's information strategy has set a ten-year framework to improve information access for the NHS, public health and social care.

Capita has acquired Medicals Direct for £13.2m on a cash free-debt free basis, and a deferred consideration, linked to profit performance, of up to £2m.

HMRC has created a new form and telephone helpline for people who need to make contact about tax and bereavement.

I have noted an increase in the proliferation of short-term income protection (IP) policies, and have several clients preferring it to full IP. Given the return-to-work statistics for the longer-term sick, I worry about selling these products to people...

The insurance gap is widest for aged 55 and over, MetLife has said.

In the first in a series of articles exploring the finer points of critical illness protection, CIExpert's Alan Lakey discusses value judgements.