Protection

Long term care can be costly and it helps if clients prepare in advance. Graham Duffy looks at the situation

With so many potential causes and a high probability of the loss of sufferers' livelihood, renal disease is one condition insurers are seemingly not keen on covering, as Wendy Hickman writes.

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Protection provider Legal & General says it expects the number of IFA queries through its underwriting helpline to exceed 60,000 by the end of the year.

Let me ask you a question: How many people try to tell you things every day of the week?

Scottish Widows has pulled its protection quotations from industry portals, prompting concerns it too has effectively exited the protection market following Standard Life's departure earlier today.

Standard Life has pulled out of the protection market, describing its own proposition "sub-scale" and non-profit making.

I'm writing this blog on Friday 23 November 2007; an innocuous day, you may think. But it serves as the 44th anniversary of two important events.

AXA is considering scrapping the ongoing duty of disclosure across its protection range.