Protection

John, 45, is an office manager looking for protection. He has a £200 000 mortgage and two children that he has custody of following his divorce two years ago. He doesn't exercise and although he had an alcohol problem four years ago, he does not drink....

An influential protection IFA has said he is willing to take a less commission by using only those insurers offering ‘Big T' tele-underwriting.

The FSA has been criticised for coupling short-term income protection (IP) with payment protection insurance (PPI) in a letter warning providers about contract terms.

Do you think that any standardisation of qualifications for advisers will improve public trust in the insurance industry, leading to an uptake in the amount of people seeking independent advice?

The government has finally published its green paper on the future of social care. It proposes a new ‘National Care Service'.

Progress from Royal Liver has launched a campaign to help IFAs gain a better understanding of their customers through data segmentation.

The provision of health schemes is growing within UK companies, according to a report from PruHealth, yet employee engagement is still too low.

At progress from Royal Liver, we recently launched a campaign encouraging IFAs to adopt a customer segmentation approach. It was based on a piece of research we did on our own database with some quite insightful results.

Medical risk assessment experts, Healix Group, has added Malta, Turkey and Singapore to its ‘Toxic Destinations' list. The addition follows three years claims analysis reflecting the high costs of claims incurred in these countries.

Bupa International has launched Worldwide Health Options, a flexible plan designed to be tailor-made to suit individual customers.