Underwriting

Friends Provident has launched a trust toolkit to ensure that trusts are high on the agenda for adviser's customers to consider.

All Canada Life small scheme (below 50 lives) Group Life assurance business transacted via the CLASS (Canada Life Automated Self Service) online portal is to be discounted by on average 10%.

Cirencester friendly has launched a tele-interviewing service to its Income Assured Plus product.

My client Alan owns a building company that employs 47 people. He already has death in service insurance for his employees, and I'm trying to convince him of the need for an employee income protection (IP) policy. What are the arguments to extend this...

New initiatives to be undertaken in new year

Death in service benefits can pose tax and pension problems for high earners, while smaller firms have trouble getting underwriting. Jerry Bayman suggests looking at single life Relevant Life policies

Paul Robertson talks to Ian Bird about the little known benefits that many companies offer their staff and the more cost effective products on offer to them

Children from the lower classes are more likely to become obese than peers from wealthier backgrounds, a report has found.

Anne Llewellyn examines the consequences and underwriting ramifications of this little known disease.

Swiss Re believes the insurance and reinsurance sectors will continue their "U-shaped" recoveries in 2010 alongside the major global economies.