Protection

Protection provider LV= is reducing premiums and altering terms across a number of its critical illness products.

The Income Protection Task Force (IPTF) has added to its executive team as it prepares to write its second white paper on the product.

Life insurers are on red alert for smokers fibbing on life and critical illness cover application forms at a time when premiums for smokers are at an all-time high, research suggests.

The proposed merger of medical insurer Exeter Friendly Society and income protection provider Pioneer Friendly Society has been granted FSA and member approval.

How much will the Association of British Insurers' (ABI) new guidelines on non-disclosure cost, and how much of that will trickle down to consumers?

It has been one year since the Association of British Insurers' new definitions on critical illness came into force, yet advisers and consumers are still missing out on what is seen as a difficult product, argues Iain Mallon.

Bupa customers may soon be treated in the provider's new flagship London establishment after it boug...

Adviser network Sesame will offer Elderly Care Benefit (ECB) as a free standing plan to consumers after its panel gave the move the green light.

I found it difficult to feel any sympathy for Heather Mills as she stood on the steps of the law court ranting about her divorce settlement of £25 million, when I read that many living in the UK are on the verge of bankruptcy.