Underwriting

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.

All is not lost in the search for cover post transplant, as Livi Jenkinson explains, times have changed.

Friends Life has been in the news recently. First we have its initial refusal, since reversed, to produce stats on IP claims. Then we have the case of Nic Hughes who was declined a claim on a life/CI policy for £100k because of non-disclosure. What's...

The insurance industry needs to adopt new ways of working in order to make sense of Big Data and remain competitive in future years.

As Formula 1 season shifts into gear, Chris Boatman assesses the underwriting implications of motorsport.

Bangladesh: Smart underwriting, Smart phones, Smart People: Voila!

The number of people in the UK living with lung cancer will have doubled by 2040 from around 65,000 in 2010 to around 137,000 and the number of women living with lung cancer will rise 35 times faster than in men, Macmillan Cancer Support has warned.

Today's Protection industry is largely unrecognisable to that of a decade or so years ago, and yet some habits appear to die hard, says Nick Aumonier.