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Individual Protection

AIG signs up to Protection Distributors Group's 'Funeral Payment Pledge'

AIG Life has become the first insurer to meet the Protection Distributors Group's 'Funeral Payment Pledge'.

clock 22 December 2016 • 1 min read

Regulation

Using social media to connect with your customers

Speaking at COVER's Adviser Clinic on the relevance of protection insurance today in partnership with Scottish Widows, social media expert Philip Calvert discusses why and how advisers should use social media to connect with their clients in the channels...

clock 21 December 2016 • 1 min read

Individual Protection

Q3 protection sales increase by £10.5 million

Protection insurance sales in Q3 2016 jumped by 8.2% (£10.5 million) to £139.3 million according to analysis from Equifax Touchstone.

clock 19 December 2016 • 1 min read

Employee Benefits

RedArc offers post hospital service for employees

RedArc Nurses has developed a new proposition - the Post Hospital Service - which is designed to provide assistance to employees when they are discharged from hospital but still need additional support.

clock 19 December 2016 • 1 min read

Individual Protection

How to keep underwriting relevant

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.

clock 15 December 2016 • 1 min read

Critical Illness

Zurich reports significant growth in critical illness sales to Q4 2016

Zurich has reported a 20% increase in applications for critical illness policies during the first 9 months of 2016, with over 30,000 new policies sold during this period.

clock 15 December 2016 • 1 min read

PMI

Aviva's Dr Wright appointed Healthcode chairman

Healthcode has appointed the medical director of UK Health Aviva to be its new chairman of the Board.

clock 14 December 2016 • 1 min read

Individual Protection

Women more likely to be trapped in poverty in later life

Women have "less financial resilience to bounce back from financial shocks and are more likely to be trapped in poverty in later life", according to an interim report from Insuring Women's Futures (IWF.)

clock 14 December 2016 • 3 min read

Regulation

FSCS levy: Providers to contribute to cost of intermediary failure claims

FCA shies away from product levy

clock 14 December 2016 • 3 min read

Individual Protection

Protection advisers cite client retention as their 'biggest business challenge'

Some 90% of protection advisers agree that client retention is a key focus for their businesses with just under a quarter (23%) citing it as "their biggest business challenge."

clock 14 December 2016 • 1 min read