Protection

Bright Grey, a protection specialist within the Royal London Group, has introduced a telephone interviewing process in a bid to save processing time and reduce non-disclosure.

Suffering a critical illness could treble the amount of money an individual needs to save every month to live comfortably in retirement, research suggests.

Norwich Union has linked up with Barclays to offer a range of its new life insurance products to the bank's mass market customers.

Zurich has made a number of changes to its protection proposition, including a reprice of its term assurance and critical illness cover.

Insurance firm Fortis UK, which launched a life business in July, has announced positive first-half results for 2008.

With an increasing number of supermarkets offering insurance cover such as life and mortgage payment protection, one would expect demand to increase over the coming months.

LifeSearch head of protection strategy Kevin Carr is set to leave the firm after eight years to join Pru Protect as director of protection development.

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) has hit back at the FSA for suggesting specialist lenders are not adhering to TCF principles when handling arrears.

AXA has expanded its protection website in response to demand from advisers.

Royal London now controls over 10% of the UK's individual life market after completing the takeover of Phoenix Life Assurance and the Scottish Provident and Scottish Mutual protection businesses.