Protection

The National Institute for Health Clinical Excellence (Nice) has provisionally rejected three commonly used leukaemia drugs for being too expensive compared to the benefit they bring.

Is the public really unaware of protection products and their benefits?

Cuna Mutual Group has announced a deal to distribute LV='s term life assurance to its network of building societies.

Protect has confirmed representatives from the Protection Review, Income Protection Task Force and Defaqto will be speaking at its May meeting.

Europ Assistance has partnered with Premier Occupational Healthcare as part of its expansion into healthcare and home and family assistance.

An advice service focussed on helping people with pre-existing medical conditions obtain life cover has been launched into the UK protection market.

Long-term care (LTC) has always been in the ‘too difficult' box, as successive government reviews and think tanks have advocated varying roles for the private insurance sector.

Capping prices or requiring advisers to benchmark recommendations against lower-charged substitutable products could have unintended consequences for consumers, insurer Aegon UK says.

A man has been awarded £27,000 after his local primary care trust (PCT) wrongly assessed his father's long term care (LTC) needs.

Over half (57%) of IFAs will target protection sales as a source of new revenue post Retail Distribution Review (RDR), Aviva has found.