Protection

Good afternoon readers,

Liz McMahon interviews key delegates at the Association of Medical Insurance Intermediaries (Amii) 2011 conference.

The number of private medical insurance (PMI) policies in the UK (insured and self-insured) fell by 3.8% to 3.96m at the start of 2011, according to Laing and Buisson.

Royal London's protection arms are to begin a summer of IFA marketing campaigns.

According to research reported in last month's COVER, many IFAs have poor protection market knowledge. Do you agree and what should be done about it? Do we need a dedicated protection exam?

The practice of offering the holding insurer final refusal on group risk renewals is commonplace throughout the sector. But, John Ritchie asks, is it harming you and your clients' business?

The long-term care market effectively disappeared in the early 1990s. But is it about to re-open and how should IFAs approach it? Stephanie Spicer reports

If you're an expat worker living abroad, what would happen if your parent fell ill back home? Greg Becker looks at an Indian innovation

Businesses are seeing budgets stretched in many ways, but, as Owain Thomas found, advisers who are creative with solutions could produce a windfall for themselves in the group critical illness market

A quite common and relatively benign condition often seen on insurance applications, Paul Gyseman discusses the insurability factors and the pathophysiology of this illness