Protection

All intermediaries should soon be able to advise clients to hold term assurance policies beyond the age of 70 as it is anticipated a rule governing their regulation at sale could be removed as early as the end of this week.

Shepherds Friendly Society has begun tele-interviewing all clients interested in its new income protection product.

Nick Kirwan has resigned as protection market director at Scottish Widows.

It is encouraging that the Competition Commission (CC) has not yet identified any competition concerns in respect of its investigation into the payment protection insurance (PPI) market. It said so in a statement recently, which also laid out the issues...

It's becoming increasingly evident that the level of consumer interest in Protection products is falling. An alarming report in a trade magazine recently stated that more people now insure their mobile phones than have critical illness cover. But is this...

The Treasury has extended the deadline for the processing of pipeline pension term assurance business to midnight on 31 July, following lobbying by the Association of British Insurers.

One in five people may be paying into critical illness insurance policies which are effectively invalid, says the Ombudsman.

Just 9% of adviser firms have received training from providers on the new critical illness definitions, according to a survey from Progress from Royal Liver.

I'm writing this a few hours after losing another family member to cancer so forgive me if this isn't the usual topical rant that you've become used to reading.

A leaked consultation paper from the Association of British Insurers on telephone and online applications for protection insurance has been criticised for ignoring the issue of customer signatures.