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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.

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.

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

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.)

FCA shies away from product levy

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."

Twenty7Tec has adopted iPipeline's digital sales aid with nudge capability, LifeGenie.

Speaking at COVER's Adviser Clinic on the relevance of protection insurance today, Scottish Widows' Johnny Timpson provides an overview of the protection landscape, welfare reform and resilience.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today launched a market study to consider whether competition in the residential mortgage sector can be improved to benefit consumers.

UnderwriteMe has been chosen by three further, high profile intermediaries: Assured Futures, Tuto and Future Proof.