Critical Illness
Scottish Widows updates critical illness definitions
'Removing complexity'
Critical illness: Cancer survival rates push need for protection
Fewer than one in ten have CI insurance
Friends Life launches extra care benefit for CI customers
Additional financial support if condition is 'severe and life-changing'
Scottish Widows pays 90.5% of critical illness claims
Weekly payouts of £4m
Aviva pays out 92.5% of critical illness claims
Provider releases 2015 claims stats
Scottish Widows clarifies children's CI cover eligibility
Will pay claims from birth
Aegon UK pays 97% of critical illness claims
Provider paid out £116m over 12 months
Critical illness: Why upgrading now could save future heartache
Why wouldn't an adviser seek to enhance his clients' protection?
Critical illness: On-going service proves 'life changing' for one client
Jon Pearce tells his moving story
Three odd FOS verdicts (and why advisers need to know about them)
Has one IFA's unusual hobby highlighted questionable FOS decisions?
SunLife enhances heart attack definition under critical illness
SunLife has announced changes to its critical illness cover (CIC) in line with updated best practice published a year ago by the Association of British Insurers (ABI).
Canada Life returns to individual protection market
Canada Life has returned to the individual protection market with four life plans, two offering a critical illness add-on.
Protection Watch: Five key developments all advisers should know
Five key developments all advisers should know
'Pay more commission' protection plea made
Protection providers should pay intermediaries more commission to help the industry experiment and grow, according to the founder of a comparison service.
Legal & General adds 'second medical opinion' option across protection range
Legal & General is offering new protection customers the opportunity of obtaining an independent second opinion on their condition, should they need to make a claim.
Protection Watch: Kevin Carr's verdicts on five recent developments
Promising lead or back to the lab?
Advisers urged to summon spirit of Tolkien to boost protection sales
Masterful storytelling is advisers' most powerful tool to boost take-up of protection insurance among clients, according to an expert.
Protection Watch: Five key developments all advisers should know
Five key developments all advisers should know
Aviva offers advisers extra commission in revamped protection service
Aviva has updated its protection offering, allowing multi-product quotes for the first time, live case tracking and a promise of 10% extra commission for advisers using its 'interactive' underwriting mode.
MP: Protection now a 'toxic' word after PPI scandal
The public may view all protection products as "toxic" following the payment protection insurance (PPI) mis-selling scandal, according to the chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Insurance and Financial Services.
Protection Watch: Kevin Carr's verdicts on five recent developments
Kevin Carr's verdicts on five key developments in the past month
Lighthouse launches mortgage and protection advice service
National advice firm Lighthouse Group has launched a "holistic" mortgage and protection advice service in response to demand from clients.
Friends Life launches first cancer-specific group benefit
Friends Life has launched the first employer funded group cancer workplace benefit in the UK.
ABI eyes fewer declined CI claims after updating guidelines
The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has updated its guidelines on how critical illness (CI) policies should be described and explained to consumers, in a move it hopes will ultimately lead to fewer declined claims.
