Critical Illness
Regulation
Protection complaints continued to rise during the year and have already breached last year's totals in some product areas.
17 January 2012
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1 min read
Income Protection
The government is seeking to cut half a million people from the disability benefits list when the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is introduced.
16 January 2012
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1 min read
Critical Illness
The Reinsurance Group of America (RGA) is once again issuing its set of popular Top Trumps-style cards designed to help demystify critical illness (CI).
13 January 2012
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1 min read
Critical Illness
Severity based protection payments have become more common over the year. Phil Jeynes explains why in his overview of 2011
16 December 2011
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7 min read
Critical Illness
Ageas Protect is to contact critical illness customers, including those that have already claimed, to inform them that their terms and conditions have been improved.
15 December 2011
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1 min read
Regulation
Introducing gender-neutral rates will result in premium hikes for life insurance and critical illness (CI), HM Treasury has warned.
13 December 2011
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2 min read
Critical Illness
Britain will be facing a bill of more than £15bn a year to diagnose and treat cancer in ten years time, new research has suggested.
12 December 2011
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3 min read
Critical Illness
Bad lifestyle choices such as smoking, poor diet, high alcohol intake and excess weight are responsible for ‘around 40% of all cancers', according to new research.
07 December 2011
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2 min read
Underwriting
My client has been reading about severity based payments for critical illness (CI) policies. I believe there is merit in polices that don't do this. In sales terms, what is the opposite side of the argument I can put to him?
06 December 2011
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4 min read
Critical Illness
Ageas Protect has overhauled its critical illness (CI) product to include15 ABI+ condition definitions and extended its relationship with Best Doctors.
14 November 2011
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2 min read
