Protection

Health insurers are teaming up in a concerted effort to tackle healthcare fraud following research suggesting 5% of all cash paid out by private health insurers is lost to deception.

CompareTheMarket.com is urging households to check their liability insurance cover, especially if their home is seen as a place of business for external services such as cleaners and builders.

Alliance & Leicester (A&L) has suffered the indignity of being hit with the third largest ever FSA fine after it was found to have "serious failings" in its telephone sales of payment protection insurance (PPI).

progress from Royal Liver has enhanced its Critical Illness Cover (CIC) product by increasing the number of illnesses covered and extending the scope of cover for a number of definitions.

Easier2Move is launching a new product to cover the costs incurred by home movers and their advisers when a house purchase is aborted.

Bankhall has partnered with insurance broking firm FirstCity to roll out Professional Indemnity Insurance (PII) to members.

A DVD promoting income protection (IP) cover and made available to advisers may come under the FSA's spotlight after it evoked memories of a controversial video banned for its "scaremongering" tactics.

Advisers' earnings could be hit from a new angle if lapse rates on protection cover increase as a result of the market turmoil, providers warn.

An online calculator enabling advisers to work out clients' monthly expenditure and determine how much protection they can afford has been launched by Bright Grey.

Customers should start protecting themselves against the impending redundancy aftershock of the credit crunch, according to MoneySupermarket.com.