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Foresters Life is working on cutting costs in its outsourced underwriting process.

More consumers will buy protection direct from online providers in response to the Retail Distribution Review (RDR), an online insurance group has predicted.

Insurers will be forced to get tech savvy next year as the on-going economic pressure takes its toll, Ovum has said.

UK insurers continue to exercise caution in their investment strategies despite the threat to earnings, Fitch Ratings has said.

Skandia has announced its gender-neutral pipeline plans including the launch of tele-underwriting.

Some 43% of European insurers are unlikely to be prepared for Solvency II by 2014, research by Ernst & Young has revealed.

Scottish Provident is replacing its unit linked Pegasus whole of life product with a simpler ICOB registered product.

Aegon is to introduce gender neutral pricing on 17 December 2012 and is also taking this opportunity to introduce pricing in line with the change in basis of life office taxation, known as I-E.

LV= is offering a 5% discount on all income protection applications until 30 November 2012.

Over a third of British families (37%) have never discussed with their partner or another family member what will happen to their dependent children if either of them dies.