PruProtect

Louise Colley from Aviva picked up the Outstanding Achievement Award at last night's COVER Excellence Awards.

Stonebridge Group, the mortgage and insurance network, has introduced a new life and protection panel to run alongside its existing whole of market (WOM) offering.

Despite being one of the most common conditions in the country, high blood pressure has serious underwriting consequences. Fergus Bescoby explains.

PruProtect has produced a microsite for advisers about its serious illness cover product.

The debate around making protection compulsory has sparked a number of provocative comments along with reasons why it can't work.

PruProtect has called critics of its desire for protection to be made compulsory as being "defeatist" and argued that the need is "very clear".

Grid has argued that incentivisation is the best way for the protection market to expand - not compulsion.

PruProtect has called for protection insurance to be made compulsory and said it is already seeing signs of advisers switching to protection to anticipate the Retail Distribution Review (RDR).

6,500 women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer every year, making it the fifth most common cancer in women, according to cancer research. Mary Randell outlines its insurance ramifications.

A quite common and relatively benign condition often seen on insurance applications, Paul Gyseman discusses the insurability factors and the pathophysiology of this illness