Underwriting

My client is a 48-year-old successful businessman with a wife and two children. He was a cocaine addict but has been through rehab three times and is currently clean. He also smokes. Having no protection at the moment, he is aware of the need to look...

Medicals Direct Group has re-branded itself as MDG.

Universal Provident has brought the underwriting of its product range in house with sister company Personal Assurance now the insurer.

Simplyhealth has appointed a new underwriting and pricing director.

Aviva has reduced the turnaround time for life cover medical evidence assessments with all underwriting decisions now being made within 24 hours.

With about 1.2 million active motorcyle riders in the UK, advisers would do well to familiarise themselves with covering the proportion who race. Andrzej Serwadczak explains

If you're an expat worker living abroad, what would happen if your parent fell ill back home? Greg Becker looks at an Indian innovation

A quite common and relatively benign condition often seen on insurance applications, Paul Gyseman discusses the insurability factors and the pathophysiology of this illness

The Treasury has confirmed new European rules outlawing the use of gender in underwriting will not affect policies taken out before 21 December 2012.

Cirencester friendly has added big T underwriting to its IFA application process.