Insurance

The ABI is highlighting the need for clients to fully disclose their medical history when taking out protection and health insurance.

Birmingham-based Wise Owl Services is no longer permitted to conduct insurance and mortgage activity after the FSA contacted the firm over concerns about its sales practices.

My client, Steve, has just asked me to perform an overall review of his protection needs following the start of his new family. He's only 32 and has an existing 10-year-old critical illness policy (25-year term). Should I recommend keeping this for the...

IFAs are set to be hit with a hike in professional indemnity insurance (PII) premiums as increasingly selective insurers respond to a sharp rise in claim values, warns Tenet.

Medical second opinion service Best Doctors has been introduced to all new Scottish Widows' Protection for Life policies.

Zurich has enhanced its protection products for clients who may need to make alterations to existing cover when their circumstances change.

LifeSearch has been asked by AIFA to help the ABI develop a guideline script for advisers selling critical illness insurance (CI).

Claims against life and pensions intermediaries fell by a quarter last year according to the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS).

Death claims should be paid quicker and the protection industry needs to support its existing customers better, says Munich Re.

Mortgage brokers are becoming increasingly reliant on the protection market to survive and are calling for unemployment cover to become standard on income protection (IP), according to new research.