Holloway Friendly has launched a new adviser website including a range of tools to aid the application process.
Research has shown advisers assess product attributes over any pricing consideration when advising on protection.
Aviva has reduced the turnaround time for life cover medical evidence assessments with all underwriting decisions now being made within 24 hours.
A 'read-across' of the retail distribution review (RDR) to the protection space remains a possibility and intermediaries must continue to lobby hard to prevent it, an industry consultant said.
Sesame and Bankhall have launched an online client feedback service to network members and directly authorised customers.
Nearly a quarter of employees feel a major impact when colleagues are absent, Aviva UK Health research has shown.
AXA PPP International has introduced cover for chronic conditions to its top two medical insurance plans.
Following feedback from intermediaries, Engage Mutual has enhanced its Guaranteed 50 Plus Life Cover for the intermediary market.
The collapse of Southern Cross may be repeated by other care home operators as local authorities have frozen the rates they will pay for their funded care home residents.
The UK's largest employers expect public health reform plans to cost their firms dearly as they are expected to pick up a greater share of health provision.