Today's culture bombards us with images of unrealistic expectations of how we should all look, so what does it mean for insurers as more and more people, females in particular, are subjecting their bodies to a strategy of dietary abuse?

Following his trip around some of the insurance world's most developed markets, Mark Jones talks to Paul Robertson on the lessons learnt.

John, 45, is an office manager looking for protection. He has a £200 000 mortgage and two children that he has custody of following his divorce two years ago. He doesn't exercise and although he had an alcohol problem four years ago, he does not drink....

An influential protection IFA has said he is willing to take a less commission by using only those insurers offering ‘Big T' tele-underwriting.

Do you think that any standardisation of qualifications for advisers will improve public trust in the insurance industry, leading to an uptake in the amount of people seeking independent advice?

The government has finally published its green paper on the future of social care. It proposes a new ‘National Care Service'.

At progress from Royal Liver, we recently launched a campaign encouraging IFAs to adopt a customer segmentation approach. It was based on a piece of research we did on our own database with some quite insightful results.

The FSA has extended its regulation to encompass those that perform a ‘significant influence' function at firms. In a policy statement the FSA said it would place greater emphasis on the role of senior management, including non-executive directors (NEDs)....

The government's Green Paper on reform of the care and support system may result in widespread sales of long term care insurance

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has signalled it intends the end of Total Permanent Disability (TPD).