Protection

Scottish Provident adds critical illness adviser microsite

Scottish Provident has introduced a new website for advisers with a  toolkit for use...

Zurich pays out 94% of CI claims

Zurich increased the percentage of critical illness claims paid out in the first half...

Bright Grey and Scottish Provident seek to speed up life claims process

Bright Grey and Scottish Provident have introduced a fast-track system to reduce the...

Aegon improves protection proposition

Aegon UK has made a number of key changes to the underwriting requirements for...

Friends Life offers free fracture cover

Friends Life will now offer customers the option to benefit from free Fracture Cover...

Huge potential still from protection

Although the protection market is enjoying something of a purple patch at present –...

LV= launches relevant life cover business protection on LifeQuote

LV= has launched its new ‘Relevant Life Cover’ product on LifeQuote’s Business Protection area. Small...

Exeter Family Friendly launches adviser IP marketing tool

Exeter Family Friendly has launched a marketing toolkit to help advisers grow their sales...

IP better than STIP for advisers: Defaqto

Although growth in the number of Short Term Income Protection (STIP) policies available has...

Ageas Protect makes major underwriting hire

John Downes is to join Ageas Protect in October. Downes (pictured) will be responsible...

Majority of CI policies now offer severity-based cover

Defaqto has revealed that nearly 60% of critical illness policies now offer severity-based cover....

Protection market buoyed by mortgage lending

LifeQuote has reported that sales of protection insurance have reached a nine-month high. The...

Ageas Protect in alliance with Winston’s Wish

Anyone with children who makes a call to claim, due to a death or...

Roger Edwards leaves Bright Grey/Scottish Provident

Roger Edwards, managing director of Bright Grey and Scottish Provident, is now on gardening...

COMMENT

Commonhold and RTM: do not mistake control for simplicity

Commonhold is presented as a fairer form of flat ownership. Right to Manage (RTM) is sometimes portrayed as a quick way for residents to...

No holidays: advice firms need a plan for a busy August

Every summer, the same quiet risk runs through the intermediary market. Advisers, case managers and administrators go on holiday. Specialist lending cases, which have...

Every rate shock is becoming a test of the modern mortgage business

Halifax, Barclays and HSBC increased selected mortgage rates by up to 0.20% this week, effective 21 July. Halifax removed its sub-4% deals entirely. Barclays'...

Your next client is probably more complicated than your last one

There's a shift happening in the mortgage market that most small firms aren't ready for. It's not about rates. It's not about the political...

Why post-contract variation is becoming the mortgage market’s next battleground

For much of the past decade, mortgage technology investment has focused on origination and with good reason. Faster decisions in principle, automated affordability assessments,...

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Southwest Knotweed launches identification app

Southwest Knotweed Group has launched an app designed to help mortgage and property professionals...

Broker Conveyancing launches referral hub for advisers

Broker Conveyancing has launched a referral platform intended to make it quicker for mortgage...

House price rise puts mortgage resilience in sharper focus

Homebuyers should consider how they would meet mortgage payments if illness or injury affected...

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