Life insurance

A new group life brand, Havensrock, insured by Scottish Friendly and distributed by advisers PSHPC, has launched to the market with a proposition recognising that not all industries share the same risk.

Life insurance companies and reinsurers love a bit of jargon, so what is retrocession and how do companies use it? Mick James explains

Ellipse has created a new online nomination of beneficiary facility for members of registered group life schemes enabling employers to set up and run group life cover.

Pre-paid funeral plan sales have hit a new half-year record, the total plans sold in the first six months of 2014 were almost equal to the whole of 2008's sales.

SunLife has launched a Family Life Insurance product, promising simplicity and an intermediary product to follow.

Some 64% of people who have moved up the property ladder in the past five years and have a bigger mortgage as a result, did not review their life insurance; research finds.

Savers could be forced to pay inheritance tax while they are still alive, under a new drive against tax avoidance planned by the government.

SunLife is launching a new funeral plan to help consumers beat the rising costs of funerals and inflation, as the company expands its offer in the direct-to-consumer financial services market.

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has said the insurance industry ‘fully supports' the findings of the HSCIC Partridge review in safeguarding the use of medical data.

A husband and wife have been sentenced after he faked his death in a bid to collect more than £1.1 million from life insurance policies and investments.