FTRC announces 2019 protection ratings

Gold, silver and gold ratings

Adam Saville
clock • 3 min read

55 gold ratings awarded to providers across eight protection product categories

FTRC protection ratings benchmark products across business protection (life cover), business protection with critical illness, family income benefit (life cover), family income benefit with critical illness, life protection, income protection, mortgage protection (life only) and mortgage protection with critical illness. FTRC announced its critical illness ratings last month The analysis is based on adviser criteria covering 10 key features, such as added value benefits, while weighing likelihood of claims. Gold, silver or bronze ratings are applied by an independent panel of medical ...

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