Protection Watch: Kevin Carr's verdicts on five recent developments

Promising lead or back to the lab?

Carmen Reichman
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Professional Adviser's protection detective Kevin Carr delivers his verdicts on five key developments in the protection space in the last month...

  1 You're the one that I want A survey by ACE Group in Western Europe has found that private medical insurance is the top health & protection product consumers would consider buying, followed by critical illness cover. The impact of having a critical illness on personal finances is a concern for 71% of people, and 45% would consider CI to protect their standard of living and pay for additional treatment and support. However, 53% of those surveyed across the UK, France, Italy, Germany and Spain had no or very limited knowledge of insurance. The survey has been published in ACE's ...

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