Protection

Pricing of critical illness policies could become less reliable and perhaps more expensive if the government puts forward regulations which state insurers can only use public data to calculate premiums for men and women.

Scottish Widows and supermarket giant Asda have terminated their agreement to sell life cover products at the checkout.

Bupa has launched an online quote and application system for critical illness and life cover products, which it claims will shave days off IFAs' processing time.

I spent more than an hour yesterday dealing with questions from advisers and journalists alike on just one subject. The subject in question was "Is pension term assurance having a detrimental affect on sales of ordinary life cover?"

IFA firm Origen is urging employers to act immediately to ensure age discrimination legislation does not become too great a financial burden.

The use of qualified underwriters and ‘wet signatures' are some of the issues providers would like to see covered in the Association of British Insurers' guidelines on teleunderwriting.

Norwich Union has launched a ‘simplified life cover' product which it claims will make it easier and faster for customers and advisers to take out life policies.

As a fan of horror movies both new and old (I count ‘The Wicker Man', ‘The Shining' and ‘Saw' among my favourites), I popped into my local big brand record/DVD shop a few weeks ago to buy the Tarantino funded ‘Hostel', which looks rather gory but I never...

Less than a half of financial advisers have recommended pension term assurance (PTA) since A-Day, according to research from Standard Life.

Advisers and product providers have wholeheartedly agreed with the Association of British Insurers' call to scrap the age 70 rule, saying it is anti-competitive and restricts consumer choice.