Critical Illness

One million customers told to check critical illness cover

Phoenix, the UK’s largest specialist consolidator of closed life and pension funds, has contacted...

VitalityLife tool helps advisers calculate healthier lifestyle benefits

VitalityLife has launched a new risk calculator designed to help advisers discuss serious illness...

TMA Club to offer critical illness software via CIExpert

TMA Club has entered into an agreement with CIExpert, a firm which analyses critical illness...

Will Greenwood supporting L&G mental health campaign

Former England rugby union player Will Greenwood has become the latest sporting celebrity to...

Protection challenger pilots with four UK distributors

New protection provider Guardian is piloting its life and critical illness proposition with four...

Canada Life adopts iPipeline’s Digital Platform

IPipeline has revealed that that Canada Life has selected its Digital Platform to distribute...

Royal London reveals 2017 protection claim statistics

Royal London has reported that it paid out over £517m in protection claims last...

Mobile insurance more popular than critical illness cover

Scottish Widows has found that despite 21% of people admitting their household wouldn’t survive...

Scottish Widows publishes 2017 protection claims statistics

Scottish Widows paid out 98.99% of life claims and 93.06% of critical illness claims...

Paradigm Protect partners with Canada Life

Paradigm Protect has launched a new relationship with retirement, investment and protection provider, Canada...

L&G introduces mental health awards

Legal & General has launched its Not A Red Card Awards to celebrate what...

VitalityLife makes improvements to Serious Illness Cover

VitalityLife’s Serious Illness Cover offering has been improved, with new conditions added, existing definitions...

Legal & General launches Critical Illness Extra

Legal & General has announced the launch of a new critical illness upgrade option,...

Protection promoted during Bowel Cancer Awareness Month

April is Bowel Cancer Awareness Month and to coincide with this, Scottish Widows is...
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COMMENT

Comment

How brokers can secure better client outcomes in a volatile market

Experience has always counted in the mortgage market. Brokers who worked through the financial crisis, the Covid pandemic, the Liz Truss mini-Budget and cost-of-living...

Housing reform needs a thriving private rental sector, not just a thriving sales and purchase market

One of the most encouraging developments over recent weeks has been the renewed focus on improving the homebuying and selling process. The Government's plans to...

The economics of developing the next generation of advisers

Over the past couple of decades, I have worked alongside literally thousands of AR and DA firms, from businesses employing one or two advisers...

Is Andy Burnham the New Messiah or just Starmer with better eyebrows?

What a damning indictment of Labour that Andy Burnham appears to be strolling towards the leadership in what looks less like a contest and...

Approvals hit a 2.5-year low: When broker value gets proven – or missed

Net mortgage approvals dropped to 56,200 in May – the lowest since December 2023 - down from 66,000 the month before. Net borrowing fell from...

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LSL Financial Services appoints interim managing director

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Higher borrowing costs weighed on mortgage demand during the second quarter, although Stonebridge says...
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Omni Protect becomes first service provider to adopt Beagle Street intermediary proposition

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