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Swiss Life offers both standalone and accelerated CI plans. Both automatically include children's co...

Forthcoming regulation will put a number of new demands on protection advisers. Charlie Musson explains how technology could help intermediaries through these changing times

Clients with pre-existing conditions may choose to pay for their own healthcare to avoid high PMI loadings and exclusions. Roger Hymas explains what advisers should know about the growing self-pay sector

Thousands of homeowners may be unable to pay off their mortgages if the Financial Service Authority ...

Provider: Legal & General Product: Protection Choices - Personal Cover. Protection Choices is des...

Group critical illness sales may not have seen the same success as other group products, but there are strong opportunities in the employee-paid flexible benefit market, says Paul Robertson

Mark Simmons is 32 years old and has been a self-employed accountant for six years in Newcastle. A s...

Bid to change name of Incapacity Benefit supported by Unum

Historically, rating in this market has been fairly blunt edged, often based only on age and hospita...

Being a little overweight may not worry most people. Yet as obesity rates in the UK continue to rise, it is a mounting problem for insurers. Tony Jupp looks at how underwriters view this growing health risk