Protection

So, having had two perfectly fine goals disallowed last weekend, Sir Alex Ferguson says he would like to see video technology introduced to help referees make the right decisions in football matches.

Prudential is carrying out 100 training sessions over the next three months in what it describes as a "more aggressive" strategy to encourage advisers to recommend its flexible protection plan.

HMRC has confirmed medical reports requested by insurers for protection applications will remain exempt from VAT, saving insurers and consumers approximately £100m a year.

Introducing a non-contestability period into life and critical illness insurance policies will encourage preferred life underwriting and favour the healthy and wealthy, says Jon Briggs, protection research manager at Hargreaves Lansdown.

Liverpool Victoria has launched a free independent health assessment tool and lifestyle programme for protection policyholders to help them understand how to reduce their risk of poor health and disease.

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While thyroid disorders are relatively low risk, lack of control over the condition could cause problems for potential policyholders, reveals Daniel Patrick

Lifequote is launching a 'protection academy' in quarter two of 2007 which aims to close the protection gap by improving advisers' knowledge of products and competency skills.

I had to listen to the figure again, again and again. I had to read the numbers again, again and again. It couldn't really be true could it - city bonuses hitting £19bn with some young whizz kid traders netting millions in bonuses? But, yes, it appears...