The Protection Review

Following recent stories of declined claims in the Mail on Sunday, Kevin Carr uses lessons from Britpop to argue why insurers should pay out rather than say a claim does not 'meet the definition.'

John Ritchie, CEO of Ellipse won Personality of the Year at the Protection Review 2015 awards, while the lifetime achievement award went to John Pollock, formerly of Legal & General.

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) is developing a workplace statement that will allow employers to tell employees exactly what sickness benefits they are entitled to.

Advisers and insurers believe improved trust would be the most likely factor to increase protection sales while technology is at the bottom of the agenda, a poll has found.

Up to a third of financial advisers want significantly changed products in income protection (32%); PMI (22%) and critical illness (21%), according to an Association of Professional Financial Advisers (APFA) survey on behalf of the Protection Review....

Technology is on the cusp of delivering fundamental change to the underwriting of protection products industry experts have said.

The protection industry is not optimistic that the Mortgage Market Review will result in higher volume sales of protection products, according to the Protection Review.

The Protection Review has unearthed evidence that advisers who sell Critical Illness (CI) on price and do not discuss early stage cancers, are doing a worse advice job than comparison sites.

Almost two-thirds of the industry believes the distribution of private medical insurance (PMI) and protection products should have a degree of crossover, according to a new poll.

A quarter of protection advisers at a recent industry body training session said they were keen to ditch multi-application approaches in favour of more efficient pre-underwriting processes.