Protection

PruProtect has increased the number of advisers registered with the insurer by 200% since the beginning of the year.

With little treatment and multiple causes, Anne Llewellyn gives a guide to the underwriting of fatty liver disease.

Legal & General (L&G) has altered its underwriting criteria for people taking out life insurance and critical illness cover.

People with impaired lives are vulnerable and in need of protection, Nicky Bray explores why it is so important for them to take out the right cover to protect both their dependants and themselves.

The UK obesity epidemic is not without repercussions in the insurance industry. James Shattock explains.

Anne has recently been made redundant. As part of her employment package with her former employers, she was enrolled on a corporate PMI scheme. She wishes to carry on with this policy but does not believe that she can continue on the same terms as an...

Aegon quits UK's Group Risk market

Mike Benton suggests a radical new insurance product based on protecting the insured from claiming in the first place.

The UK's protection industry appears to have lost its way in recent years, so now more than ever before, with the economy struggling to get back on its feet, is the time for a turn around. Peter Carvill talks to John Pollock.

Swiss Re's Term and Health Watch 2009 saw that income protection (IP) sales have risen in the last year. That upturn, however, has been directly attributed to the actions of HSBC. With sales of other protection products falling, what do these results...