Critical Illness
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.
Critical illness pioneer Dr Marius Barnard dies
Dr Marius Barnard, the founder of critical illness insurance, has died at the age of 87.
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.
Protection Watch… with Kevin Carr (Oct 2014)
Protection Watch… with Kevin Carr (Oct 2014)
Protection Watch... with Kevin Carr (July 2014)
Kevin Carr gives his verdict on five key developments in protection in the last month...
Armchair Critic: This is the best collective effort in protection I've seen
This is the best collective effort in protection I've seen
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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