L&G's 'little t' gets bigger

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Legal & General has signed a deal to expand its 'little t' tele-underwriting service. The venture, ...

Legal & General has signed a deal to expand its 'little t' tele-underwriting service. The venture, with Primecare Primary Care, said to be 'a provider of integrated out-of-hours healthcare' will replicate L&G's current tele-underwriting model, this time on a larger scale. Nurses and doctors from Primecare will call customers at home to confidentially follow up on disclosures made during the application process. L&G says the deal will give them the ability to deal with four more medical conditions over the telephone, effective immediately, and it expects this number to increase by the en...

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