Protection

Mortality tables issued by the Actuarial Profession suggest male smokers have a one in a hundred chance of dying at the age of 60 and are twice as likely to die as non-smokers.

Norwich Union (NU) Healthcare has today launched a new private medical insurance (PMI) product for the individual market.

City Connexions is banking on depolarisation and other changes attracting intermediaries to its MPPI offering, which has just launched through website cityconnexions.com.

Health cash plan provider HSA Group has this morning announced plans to merge with Manchester-based HealthSure.

There is a £32bn shortfall in UK life cover among first time buyers according to new research

A total of £14bn a year is being offered to 1.7m elderly and disabled people in the form of individual budgets to purchase care services, under proposals to reform social care in England.

The government has agreed to extend the current moratorium on the use of genetic testing by insurers to 2011.

Progress from Royal Liver is considering developing online applications and underwriting which could be intuitively tailored to match the age, sex and medical conditions of the person applying for the protection product.

Waiting for GP reports to be returned to underwriters is apparently the most annoying aspect of writing and advising on protection products, according to IFAs attending recent Progress from Royal Liver roadshows.

Hitachi, Asia's third largest company, is moving further into the UK protection market with a new ASU offering through Webline, the quotes portal has confirmed.