Bright Grey

Bright Grey has increased the scope of its critical illness (CI) claims panel to also cover Scottish Provident policies.

Bright Grey and Scottish Provident have sought to clarify breast cancer cover from critical illness (CI) providers following recent changes made to their definitions.

Scottish Provident and Bright Grey have amended their critical illness products to include five new definitions and two reclassifications of conditions.

In the first of a series of planned announcements over the next six weeks, Bright Grey and Scottish Provident have revealed their sales teams will be promoting each others products.

New business at Royal London's protection arms Bright Grey and Scottish Provident fell 14% over Q1 2011 compared to the same quarter last year.

Pink is pushing its representatives to take a greater focus on protection and has unveiled a new short protection panel featuring five providers.

Royal London has agreed to potentially buy the Progress protection back book business as part of its deal with parent company Royal Liver.

Bright Grey and Scottish Provident are remaining defiant and calling government action in the face of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) decision to ban gender based underwriting.

Bright Grey and Scottish Provident have rebounded slightly in the final quarter of 2010 but new business still fell 10% during the year.

Royal London's wrap platform Ascentric increased new assets under management by 189% to £1,217m in 2010 from £421m the previous year.