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Beagle Street's critical illness plan offers 23 conditions including children's cover up to £25,000. The definitions abide strictly by the ABI model wordings and aims to be a low-cost simple, direct to consumer plan.

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Aviva has added second opinion and practical guidance services to its critical illness products for adviser client policyholders.

LV= and Aviva stood out with four gongs each at the LifeSearch awards in London yesterday.

If commission was abolished for protection plans, what would be the result? Would the customer benefit? Perhaps not, finds Alan Lakey.

Strong performance in Aviva protection and "at retirement" sales has driven a slight increase in long-term sales, the provider's 2012 preliminary results show.

Aviva suffered a loss of £3bn in 2012 due to a £3.3bn writedown from the sale of its US business last year.

The whole auto-enrolment piece has been structured without the intermediary in mind, despite a clear function for advisers in communicating the message, Capita said at the Employee Benefits Connect 2013 conference today.

Cega, the international claims and emergency medical assistance provider, has been appointed by Aviva UK Health to support its domestic PMI and individual international PMI policyholders overseas.

Trevor Matthews, chief executive of Aviva UK, is to step down from the role.