Protection

Progress from Royal Liver is adding family income benefit to its e-only menu range, which can be completed through to risk via The Exchange.

Lifesearch is seeking fundraising opportunities from life insurance companies to help grow the protection business further.

Bright Grey is the latest protection provider to conduct a rate review of its life and critical illness cover.

PRIVATE HEALTHCARE

Debra Bradley assesses the impact of worldwide travel,smoking and cannabis use on respiratory diseases and theunderwriting of those conditions

TREATING CUSTOMERS FAIRLY

Prudential has reduced its guaranteed critical illness cover and protection rates by an average 8-13%, in a bid to put its back towards the top of the pricing table.

Provision of long-term care funding should be tackled as part of the Pensions Commission's remit along with improved financial advice as initial research suggests a variety of solutions need to be deployed, suggests the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

Axa PPP Healthcare is launching a new type of lower-cost private medical insurance targeted at the over 55s to cover ailments which hinder quality of life.

Around three-quarters of Brits who travel abroad for medical treatment are doing so because they are fed up with UK waiting lists, however, this could affect consumer non-disclosure, suggests a report published by Norwich Union Healthcare.