ABI

Following his trip around some of the insurance worlds most developed markets, Mark Jones talks to Paul Robertson on the lessons learnt.

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has signalled it intends the end of Total Permanent Disability (TPD).

Well we are deep in the heart of the summer months and, while the insurance industry is rather quiet in terms of providers and intermediaries, many official bodies have seen fit, perhaps cynically, to use the last month to release research results and...

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) today proposes an end to the automatic inclusion of a total and permanent disability (TPD) clause in critical illness (CI) policies in a bid to reduce the number of declined claims.

Just how clear is the future for critical illness? Steve Casey outlines the factors contributing to the product's future.

Last month the Income Protection (IP) Task Force published White Paper II outlining the Task Force's thoughts on the current state of the IP market, Peter Carvill examines what consumers need and how the Task Force will respond to them in light of this....

Do you think that the introduction of Bright Grey's new cut-down CI policy, set to be sold exclusively online, will impact customers that would previously have visited an IFA? Is this the shape of things to come?

Providers looking to enhance CI products must consider the effect on systems and pricing, and whether further underwriting is required. Julie Hopkins explores how cover can be retrospectively amended.

The current economic crisis has generated a lot of criticism of the position of public sector workers and in the world of planet insurance, one group of employees could be exempt from the pain of the recession until 2011 - GPs who receive fees for medical...

Was the ban on payment protection insurance (PPI) sales by credit providers at the point at which credit is taken out a victory for consumers?