Underwriting

Psychological techniques can help insurance applicants and claimants give insurers fuller information, according to Philip Graves, one of the world's leading experts in consumer behaviour.

New research suggests tradespeople are amongst the nation's fittest workers, typically exercising for 16.4 hours each week, over six times the NHS' minimum recommendation of 2.5 hours exercise per week.

Fitch ratings has said the outlook for the reinsurance industry remains "stable" , with poor investment returns and softening prices the main clouds on the horizon.

Is debt waiver the answer to the protection gap and the end of the PPI mis-selling saga? Paul Walsh finds out.

Female life expectancy aged 65 varies by up to 5.7 years from region to region, research from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) finds.

Paul Robertson discusses Ageas's Darren Sprigg's vision of a high tech protection market

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is updating clinical guideline on the diagnosis and treatment prostate cancer.

Annual research into the insurance needs of gay men and women, by gay protection specialist IFA Compass, has for the first time focused on critical illness (CI) cover, instead of life insurance.

At risk women across England and Wales could be given a daily pill to prevent breast cancer.

Quote+, a universal application process for protection insurance products is to be rolled by Direct Life to the adviser community within weeks.