Term Assurance
IRESS launches 'buy-now' term assurance option for advisers
Via The Exchange
Lady with MS told she is 'uninsurable' by 'specialist' adviser
Made to feel as if she was ‘a nuisance’
Scottish Widows unveils 'Plan and Protect' range
Life and critical illness cover
iPipeline: 'Record quarter' for new business
Total volume up 21% year on year
ONS: Families on average spend £1 a week to protect mortgage
Highest weekly spend since 2005
Aviva expands bereavement support services
For families of life insurance customers
VitalityLife launches mortgage plan and enhances IP
‘Simple but comprehensive’ protection for mortgages
COVER Feature: Taking control
Access to insurance for people with diabetes
PRIMIS adds Scottish Widows Protect to panel
Mortgage network to offer life and critical illness range
Nearly a third would consider buying life insurance from bank
Most people would choose to insure against accidental death followed by cancer, Pacific Life Re Consumer Research finds
F&TRC opens API access to protection data for product comparison
Designed to help intermediaries comply with IDD
Life expectancy improvements grind to a halt - ONS
Record numbers of people aged 90 plus
AIG Life adapts term assurance for IHT planning
Joint life second death (JLSD) option added to relieve tax burden on couples gifting assets
Aegon adds family income benefit to online protection application
Majority of people would prefer monthly income to lump sum, says survey
Futureproof offers helping hand to vapers finding cover
Vaping carries health risk but not as harmful as smoking
LV= protection sales fall 15% during first half of 2018
Closure of whole of life offering has seen shift towards term assurance, but income protection offers growth opportunity
Guardian FS picks L&C, Paradigm, Sesame Bankhall and SimplyBiz for pilot
Four protection distributors with 60 adviser firms join 'test and learn' process before full market roll-out in six weeks
Gary Burchett: From the heart
Gary Burchett, protection director at Scottish Widows, on heart disease and the 35th anniversary of critical illness cover
L&G launches Funeral Payment Pledge of up to £10,000
Insurer goes beyond Protection Distributors Group's (PDG) call for £5,000 of a claim for funeral costs
Royal London rolls out Diabetes Life Cover
Capped premiums and tailored fast track application process for people with diabetes struggling to get cover
Old Mutual Wealth appoints David Still as MD for life assurance
He joins from Aviva UK where he was managing director of its 'Heritage' closed book
Swiss Re Term & Health Watch: Sales up 11.6% in 2017
Overall increase of 21.1% for critical illness - highest level of growth since 2012
Scottish Widows pays out 98.99% of life claims for 2017
Above industry average figures for both critical illness and life paid claims
Guardian: 'Simpler, broader definitions' for CIC and terminal illness
Gryphon Group Holdings targets protection disruption by removing exclusions for critical Illness and terminal illness
