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Old Mutual Wealth's (OMW) protection business has increased its financial limits and produced a new shorter questionnaire to speed up its underwriting process for advisers.

Aegon is reminding parents to check their critical illness (CI) policies and has shared information for child CI claims since 2007 in recognition of childhood cancer awareness month.

Royal London has partnered with mortgage and protection advisers London & Country (L&C) to develop and test a life insurance application service providing an instant decision on life cover eligibility as part of the mortgage advice process.

VitalityLife is offering customers an upfront discount and annual premium discounts if they monitor and improve their health, as part of two new developments for its protection customers.

Fergus Bescoby discusses hearing loss and the underwriting implications for protection policies.

Steve Casey asks what underwriting would be like if the protection industry was starting from scratch today.

Zurich has launched a protection platform enabling advisers to apply for multiple policies in one application, COVER can exclusively reveal.

Speaking at COVER's Adviser Clinic on the relevance of protection insurance today, Scottish Widows' Helen Dick discusses how to keep underwriting relevant as technology advances.

Redmayne Consulting's Nigel Bradshaw takes an in depth look at underwriting criteria on the major quote portals and asks where the underwriting journey is going next.

Scottish Widows has introduced electronic General Practitioner (GP) reports into its protection policy underwriting process to make it simpler and quicker to obtain customers' medical information from their GP practice.