Individual Protection

L&G: early warning tool has cut protection lapse rates

IFAonline | 02 May 2013 | 10:45

Legal & General (L&G) has seen a marked decline in lapsed policies across its protection product channels, which it partly put down to an ‘early warning system' it rolled out to advisers in 2006.

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Friends Life ordered to pay out £100k on CI cancer claim

IFAonline | 26 Apr 2013 | 13:47

The family of a man who died of cancer but whose life insurance payout was refused on the grounds that he failed to disclose pins and needles have won their fight against Friends Life, after the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) ruled that the insurer was wrong to cancel his policy.

Broker launches e-petition to scrap tax on PMI

IFAonline | 23 Apr 2013 | 12:06

An insurance broker has launched an e-petition to reinstate tax relief on private medical insurance following a decade of price rises for consumers.

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Protection: an idea to ease advisers' workload

IFAonline | 22 Apr 2013 | 12:45

Like it or not, when assessing the hours of work per case in relation to the remuneration, protection business is often less profitable than other lines of advice.

Gender-neutral pricing: a bit of clarity

IFAonline | 25 Oct 2012 | 08:00

Andrew Tully, pensions technical director at MGM Advantage, assesses the impact of gender-neutral pricing…

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