Technology

Group protection specialist Unum has launched an application - ‘The Perkulator' - which enables people to calculate how much their benefits package is worth, based on simple information they provide.

Cirencester friendly is to completely renew its IT systems, including its adviser facing offering.

Canada Life has revealed that almost half of its small scheme new business is being done online.

The increased use of integrated technology systems and social media will be vital to the development of IFA businesses post RDR, Aviva has warned.

LifeQuote has developed a decision in principle tool for the protection market to assist advisers with the process of placing difficult lives with insurers.

Insurers must continue using their online systems in to post sales care to support advisers and their client relationships, an industry working group has demanded.

The insurance industry is being held back by poor data capture, substandard analysis and lack of integration between systems, Medicals Direct Group has said.

Legal & General has launched a free protection app for iPhones and iPads.

Assureweb has added a whole of life quotation portal to its service.

It's time to bring claims departments into the modern era with new technology, writes