Critical Illness
Regulation
Introducing gender-neutral rates will result in premium hikes for life insurance and critical illness (CI), HM Treasury has warned.
13 December 2011
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2 min read
Critical Illness
Britain will be facing a bill of more than £15bn a year to diagnose and treat cancer in ten years time, new research has suggested.
12 December 2011
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3 min read
Critical Illness
Bad lifestyle choices such as smoking, poor diet, high alcohol intake and excess weight are responsible for ‘around 40% of all cancers', according to new research.
07 December 2011
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2 min read
Critical Illness
Ageas Protect has overhauled its critical illness (CI) product to include15 ABI+ condition definitions and extended its relationship with Best Doctors.
14 November 2011
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2 min read
Underwriting
My client is just starting out in freelance consultancy after being made redundant. He is a single parent with a 14-year-old daughter and previously had all major protections and private medical insurance (PMI) through work. I will cover him for the usual...
07 November 2011
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4 min read
Income Protection
Cancer patients already severely struggling with financial difficulties because of their illness could be hit with "catastrophic" effects if welfare reform proceeds, MacMillan Cancer Support has warned.
24 October 2011
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2 min read
Critical Illness
The latest issue of COVER included a report that some members of the protection provider community, including the ABI, were unhappy with the way third party agencies rate products.
20 October 2011
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6 min read
Term Assurance
Protection and health insurance complaints to the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) leapt sharply in the second three months of the year.
18 October 2011
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1 min read
Critical Illness
Aviva has added the first partial payments to its critical illness (CI) policy and halved the length of time for a Multiple Sclerosis (MS) claim.
17 October 2011
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1 min read
Insurer
The "diabolical" selling of protection back books needs to be regulated and restricted, with the new owners held accountable for the way the books are run, an industry expert says.
11 October 2011
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3 min read
