Scottish Widows adds beneficiary nomination

For life policies

Cameron Roberts
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Scottish Widows has introduced beneficiary nomination to its product suite to speed up payments after bereavement.

The service is available on new personal single-own-life and life-with-critical-illness policies. Scottish Widows will allow customers to nominate up to five beneficiaries during application with no signatures or separate trust forms needed should the beneficiaries be in place before the policies go on risk. For applications with multiple eligible covers, advisers can choose different beneficiaries for products or apply the same nominations. Scottish Widows head of protection change Paul Jenkin said: "Beneficiary nomination is a practical tool that helps advisers support clients an...

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