Protection

Risk Placement Services has added income protection to its online portfolio of products for non-standard customers, in a bid to minimise the consumer protection gap.

The Private Health Partnership has acquired Select Healthcare, a specialist medical insurance adviser, for an undisclosed sum.

Private medical insurance companies which do not arrange medical treatment on behalf of their customers are failing to meet public expectations, according to research from BCWA.

Norwich Union has adopted the Association of British Insurers' best practice definitions for critical illness (CI) cover and increased the maximum term on protection policies with reviewable CI.

A move by the Treasury to link pensions term assurance to pensions would create considerable costs for providers and advisers, says Andy Milburn, IFA market manager at Royal Liver.

This might sound like a bit of a rant - but after losing any opportunity I thought I had to become a future shareholder at Liverpool Football Club now's as good a time as any.

Conversations about reducing the risk of non-disclosure in protection applications usually focus on the need for insurers to improve their application forms and the propensity of consumers to lie in order to get cover.

Having finally woken up to the fact I live in a single-income household with one adult, one junior dependent and a third on the way it has become necessary to cast around for some income protection.

Norwich Union has added a protection zone to its 'Make sense of it' consumer website, which provides information about life and pension products for consumers.

The Income Protection Taskforce has revealed the heads of four working groups, which have been formed to tackle its nine-point plan for reviving the income protection market.