Individual Protection

Bright Grey paid 90% of critical illness claims in the first half of the year.

The term ‘avocational' describes activities taken up outside one's regular work or profession. Asking life and health insurance applicants whether they participate or plan to participate in hazardous sports, for example, is standard practice.

The publication of the Dilnot Report provides a once in a decade opportunity to arrive at a fair care funding system.

Fifty charities have hit out at the government for using ‘dangerously misleading' benefit claims statistics that are contributing to hatred towards disabled people.

The Protection Review and the Personal Finance Society (PFS) will soon be announcing the first dates for independent protection training for advisers.

Disability rights campaigners have hit out at a report by MPs which concluded the process used to decide claimants' eligibility for benefits is working well.

Nearly half of all Britons are neglecting their health and fitness, research has found.

Only a quarter (24%) of people applying for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) are found sick or disabled enough to be awarded the benefit, according to latest government statistics.

LV= has launched a new version of its reference book; the "Little Book of Protection".

Bright Grey has reduced premiums for plan holders with reviewable life or critical illness cover.