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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).

  • 28 October 2015
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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.

  • 24 August 2015
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  • 23 July 2015
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'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.

  • 21 July 2015
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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.

  • 15 July 2015
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Protection Watch: Kevin Carr's verdicts on five recent developments

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  • 15 June 2015
Advisers urged to summon spirit of Tolkien to boost protection sales
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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.

  • 22 May 2015
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Protection Watch: Five key developments all advisers should know

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  • 12 May 2015
Aviva offers advisers extra commission in revamped protection service
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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.

  • 17 April 2015
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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.

  • 25 February 2015
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  • 05 February 2015
Lighthouse launches mortgage and protection advice service
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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.

  • 21 January 2015
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Friends Life launches first cancer-specific group benefit

Friends Life has launched the first employer funded group cancer workplace benefit in the UK.

  • 16 January 2015
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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.

  • 17 December 2014
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Critical illness pioneer Dr Marius Barnard dies

Dr Marius Barnard, the founder of critical illness insurance, has died at the age of 87.

  • 14 November 2014
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Lloyds exits stand-alone protection advice

Lloyds bank has announced it will no longer offer stand-alone protection advice across its Halifax, Lloyds Bank and Bank of Scotland branches after observing "significantly reduced" customer demand.

  • 14 November 2014
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Protection Watch... with Kevin Carr (July 2014)

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  • 30 July 2014
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Armchair Critic: This is the best collective effort in protection I've seen

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  • 17 June 2014
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Protection figures 'shatter illusion' of declined claims

Figures showing insurance companies declined fewer than 3,500 of more than 102,000 protection claims last year "shatter the illusion" that providers don't pay, according to stakeholders.

  • 27 May 2014
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Aviva CI to pay out on all heart attacks

Aviva has enhanced its heart attack definition on new critical illness (CI) policies to pay out on the diagnosis of a heart attack regardless of severity.

  • 14 April 2014
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Aviva launches 'high value' cases protection team

Aviva has launched a specialist protection team to offer a tailored service for protection cases with high levels of cover and large premiums.

  • 25 February 2014
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Aegon UK head of protection proposition exits amid restructure

Aegon UK is proposing to make the role of protection distribution director redundant and has announced the exit of its head of protection proposition as part of wide-ranging changes to its protection unit.

  • 21 February 2014
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L&G increases underwriting limits for life and CI

Legal & General (L&G) is increasing the underwriting limits across its life insurance and critical illness (CI) products among other changes to its protection proposition.

  • 28 January 2014
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