Bright Grey
Income Protection
Bright Grey and Scottish Provident have confirmed that they are reviewing income protection, aiming to "substantially" increase those offered own occupation cover.
19 March 2012
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Marketing
Over 20 million Britons believe they could survive for up to six months on ‘emergency' funds despite half having less than £1,000 available in accessible savings.
05 March 2012
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Regulation
The private medical insurance (PMI) market's two biggest players have seen a rise in the number of complaints escalated to the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS).
29 February 2012
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Underwriting
Subject access requests and online technology have opened the debate over GP reports. Ian Smart asks if this could remove a perennial insurance bugbear.
21 February 2012
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7 min read
Critical Illness
Bright Grey paid out 91% of critical illness (CI) claims in the last six months of 2011.
30 January 2012
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1 min read
uncategorised
Bright Grey has urged Britons to cut back on spending to help stabilise their finances and provide enough to secure a safety net for emergencies.
16 January 2012
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2 min read
Regulation
With white papers due this year on long-term care (Dilnot Review), sickness absence and also the Treasury's work on simple products, how much explicit help (not just macro changes to benefits and the NHS) would you want the government to give the industry?...
10 January 2012
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5 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
Insurer
Bright Grey and Scottish Provident have warned that insurers could be "shooting themselves in the foot" by changing the way they request medical evidence from GPs.
09 December 2011
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2 min read
Income Protection
With take up of sales in income protection (IP) by advisers so low, reflecting in low consumer sales, what could be done to the product to make it more attractive to IFAs, apart from increased commission?
06 December 2011
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5 min read
