Protection

Friends Provident has launched an online toolkit it says will help advisers enhance their protection selling skills.

Independent financial advisers are becoming increasingly interested in US life settlement (LS) policies.

More than a third of consumers admit to intentional non-disclosure when applying for a critical illness (CI) policy, an FSA study suggests.

Income protection (IP) is in the news for a number of reasons right now.

A policyholders support group has launched a High Court challenge against the Treasury for its failure to adequately compensate victims of the near collapse of insurance mutual Equitable Life nine years ago.

It was very interesting to listen the other day to an online seminar about retention where the speaker was talking about the increase in sales of home safes.

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has defended its decision not to attend the launch of a white paper on the income protection (IP) market, an absence described as "embarrassing".

Half of the population would be penniless in less than a month if their income dried up suggests research from AXA Life.

So I'm sitting on a train last week and the BlackBerry goes. It's my very patient PA, Claire, and she's just flagged up a critical illness (CI) claim that really shows TCF in action.

Bupa Individual Protection is extending its premium reduction offer for excluded conditions on critical illness.