Protection

A controversial FSA directive forcing providers and advisers to tell clients the total premium of a protection policy over its lifetime is being reviewed.

Insurer Aviva continued its poor recent run on Thursday as the FTSE fell marginally into the red in early trading.

Friends Provident International (FPI) has identified a need for client education on critical illness cover in the Middle East as it launches a protection product into the region.

Hands up who knows who is credited with inventing critical illness cover (CIC) as we know it?

The Association of Medical Insurance Intermediaries (AMII) is running its exhibition and conference at the Barcelo Hinckley Island Hotel just outside Coventry on Wednesday, 17 June 2009.

Andy Pennie, Marketing Director, Santander Private Banking From the media headlines, a visiting Martian might conclude that all economic activity in the UK had ceased with the end of the investment boom and the advent of a recession.

Think back to the days when the IFA world was wholly paper-based. Only a decade ago, advisers filled in application forms by hand, chased case progress by phone and a huge chunk of the day was swallowed up underneath mountains of paperwork.

As companies confront the economic impacts of recession and plan their survival strategies, Richard Munro examines the challenges facing the health insurance industry.

After much talk of a generic industry-wide protection campaign it seems the ball has started rolling. Paul Robertson explains the what it hopes to achieve and how it may impact the industry.

UK anti-corruption laws are tightening. Richard Burger explains their effects in the insurance arena.