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Tips from Bright Grey

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.

Having read recent calls from the protection insurance market in the media about the formation of a specialist protection insurance group, Protect and its members are willing to support such an entity.

Clive Waller ponders the necessity of claims statistics if insurers are to be taken seriously.

There must have been more than a few sweaty brows last week when the HBOS disaster broke wide open in all its gory detail.

The Consumer Insurance Act has been heralded as simply codifying current best practice within the insurance market. This does not reflect the fundamental change to pre-contract disclosure brought about by this legislation, abolishing the consumer's duty...

Surveys suggest only around 1 in 10 UK employees have income protection insurance, yet as Which? says ‘The one protection policy every working adult in the UK should consider is the very one most of us don't have - income protection'.

Tax relief for businesses for health interventions is a great start, says Unum's John Letizia, but we should push for more

People want clarity and transparency

The announcement in the Budget that the implementation of the cap on social care costs will be moved forward to 2016 at a rate of £72,000 came as little surprise as the Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne had pre-announced this in the media at...