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.
Dr Marius Barnard, the founder of critical illness insurance, has died at the age of 87.
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.
An award-winning campaign designed to demonstrate the real-life benefits of income protection has gone live.
Protection Watch… with Kevin Carr (Oct 2014)
Aegon UK has launched a whole of life protection plan which offers the ability to place the policy in a discretionary trust at application.
Kevin Carr gives his verdict on five key developments in protection in the last month...
A retired IFA currently battling an Ombudsman payment protection insurance claim dating from the 1980s says the lack of a complaints long-stop for advisers is "crazily unfair" and is pushing his MP to intervene.
Provider Scottish Widows has confirmed it will be re-entering the IFA market with protection products next year.
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