Protection

Following my recent comments in this very column about how intermediaries could benefit their businesses by working closer with the media I'm on a bit of a rant this month I'm afraid, about a few life office representatives who comment to the press on...

Negligent life insurance claims will be subject to a five-year non-contestability period, the Law Commission proposes.

Sometimes I think I must live in a parallel universe where attempting to sell products that are designed to help people when they fall on had times is seen as a capital crime and the butchers of Srebrenica are held up as model citizens.

Self-employed people's income protection plans are ‘unfair' according to Alan Lakey, partner at Highclere Financial Services.

Finance firms can no longer automatically offer payment protection insurance after the FSA changed how the products are sold over the internet.

Friends Provident has taken what it calls a "small step" towards rebuilding consumer confidence in critical illness after announcing it will pay a proportion of a claim even if non-disclosure has been identified.

Non-disclosure is the most important issue facing the protection industry, according to Nick Kirwan, chairman of the ABI Protection Committee.

One in three UK families has no critical illness, income protection or life insurance, research suggests.

Pioneer, the income protection provider, has launched the Professional Income Protection Plan (PIP) aimed at professionals and workers in low risk industries.

An initiative has been launched by Norwich Union to help tackle the problem of life insurance and critical illness claims being rejected due to non-disclosure.