2018: A critical year

'Quality over quantity'

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CIExpert's Alan Lakey reviews a year in critical illness with 'child-like exhilaration'

When I tell friends and relatives that it has been an exciting year for critical illness insurance they look at me sadly and shake their heads. "How can critical illness insurance be exciting?" One of them countered. Maybe I should revert to my prosaic norm but, for this end of year round-up, you will have to excuse the child-like exhilaration. Minimum standards May saw publication of the Association of British Insurers' (ABI) triennial ‘Guide to Minimum Standards for Critical Illness cover', which bizarrely now appears every four years. Insurers have to adhere to its minimum stand...

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