Critical Illness

My client, Steve, has just asked me to perform an overall review of his protection needs following the start of his new family. He's only 32 and has an existing 10-year-old critical illness policy (25-year term). Should I recommend keeping this for the...

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Bright Grey says it paid 95% of critical illness (CI) claims in the first six months of the year, its strongest claims paid figures to date.

Half of private medical and dental insurance complaints received by the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) have been upheld in the first quarter of the year.

Skandia will close its MultiBOND and critical illness offerings to new business from the end of September.

From the end of September Skandia will no longer sell Critical Illness (CI) policies.

Zurich has enhanced its protection products for clients who may need to make alterations to existing cover when their circumstances change.

LifeSearch has been asked by AIFA to help the ABI develop a guideline script for advisers selling critical illness insurance (CI).

Advisers could face using approved scripts when selling protection after criticism about poor intermediary product explanations by the FSA.