Individual Protection

From its conception by Dr Marius Barnard to its current incarnation, critical illness cover has changed dramatically. Bonnie Burns reports on how the product must continue to move with the times.

Legal & General's senior operations manager for claims and medical underwriting is keen to improve consumer awareness and understanding of his industry, as he tells Lucy Quinton.

Forever tarred with the same brush as its cousin payment protection insurance, MPPI has still not been given the opportunity to flourish. Barbara Cockburn insists that the time is now. Click here to download pdf

As house prices remain sky high, insurers must acknowledge and act on the link between property value and Inheritance Tax to pre-empt future threshold rises, writes Ian Noble

What happens to a business when one of its key persons becomes ill, disabled or dies? Gerry Warner outlines what business protection really means

Advisers can no longer afford to be locked out of the debate about the benefits offered by trusts, as Phil Carroll demonstrates

As new products stutter and stall, few providers are offering the kind of innovation needed to gain any ground towards the level of service policyholders really need, writes Lucy Quinton

Protection Choices is designed to allow the planholder to change their protection during the term to...

In a critical condition?

Following the ABI's review of the CI definitions last April and with the implementation date now looming, Lucy Quinton looks at whether the industry will make the deadline