Insurance

Prudential's life insurance and critical illness (CI) plan is available to selected IFAs from today, but some industry figures have raised concerns the product may be too complex.

With critical illness insurers covering nearly 40 different conditions, Johanna Gornitzki questions whether any of these illnesses should be scrapped

Where's our boom gone?

Minimum acceptable age: Anyone aged between 18 and 59 can apply. Maximum term: The maximum policy ...

PPI

With less than a month until A-Day, the Association of British Insurers (ABI) is lobbying the Government to release final details and clarification on a number of outstanding issues and regulations.

The Big V - launched amid claims of scaremongering, hypocrisy and over-complication - has already created a stir. Johanna Gornitzki looks at industry reaction to Virgin's cancer-only cover

Skandia Protect (fixed term)Maximum age at start of insured critical illness (CI): 60 Minimum polic...

Rate war

Early detection is the key to the most common cancer among women, says Helen Cliff - and the prognoses are improving