Protection

The Treasury has extended the deadline for the processing of pipeline pension term assurance business to midnight on 31 July, following lobbying by the Association of British Insurers.

One in five people may be paying into critical illness insurance policies which are effectively invalid, says the Ombudsman.

Just 9% of adviser firms have received training from providers on the new critical illness definitions, according to a survey from Progress from Royal Liver.

I'm writing this a few hours after losing another family member to cancer so forgive me if this isn't the usual topical rant that you've become used to reading.

A leaked consultation paper from the Association of British Insurers on telephone and online applications for protection insurance has been criticised for ignoring the issue of customer signatures.

Aegon Scottish Equitable is holding a series of seminars which aim to help advisers target and start writing business protection.

How many different ways can there be of doing the same thing, and is the requirement of a signature really something that insurers should be competing on, or should there be some standardisation?

THE former chief executive of Scottish Widows Investment Partnership has died aged 50 after being struck down by hypothermia in the Pyrenees.

The majority of providers seem to be waiting until the last possible moment before they implement the ABI's new critical illness definitions, but I'm still not convinced they will make product and marketing material any clearer.

Bright Grey is incorporating the Association of British Insurers' new critical illness definitions from the start of next week and is adding four new illnesses to its cover.