Aegon

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Aegon paid 94% of critical illness (CI) claims in the first half of the year, a 3% increase on its overall result for 2010 (91%).

According to research reported in last month's COVER, many IFAs have poor protection market knowledge. Do you agree and what should be done about it? Do we need a dedicated protection exam?

Aegon has increased its medical underwriting limits for its life and critical illness (CI) protection proposition.

Aegon is to launch a series of underwriting seminars, running from 14 June until 5 July, at numerous locations across the UK.

Paul McMahon has stepped down as director of corporate at Friends Provident to become group marketing director at rival Aegon.

Aegon will launch an online trust analyser tool this month to help advisers identify which of their client's mortgage and family protection policies should be placed under trust.

My client is 42 and runs a consultancy in the oil industry. As a result he has to travel extensively, including contracts in dangerous and high disease risk countries such as Algeria, Sudan and Nigeria. He has already arranged international private medical...

Alun Beynon, the head of Aegon's individual protection business, will step down from December.

AEGON's decision to remain in individual protection markets was due to "significant overlap" with its chosen core markets, the provider has said.