Scottish Provident

Scottish Provident paid out 91% of all CI claims in the first half of 2013, according to figures released today.

Men in their 30s have increased the amount they insure themselves by a fifth (20%) in the past year, according to new figures from Scottish Provident.

Don't look back in anger

Exclusions and removals from Critical Illness plans can cause confusions in the future, Alan Lakey explains.

Insurers need to focus on creative initiatives that draw data from alternative sources including social media, third parties and machine-to-machine communications, or else risk their competitive position, Ovum has warned.

Bowel cancer was the second most claimed for form of cancer last year, Scottish Provident has reported.

A quarter of protection advisers at a recent industry body training session said they were keen to ditch multi-application approaches in favour of more efficient pre-underwriting processes.

Bright Grey and Scottish provident have published income protection claims statistics for the first time.

A near-25% rise in UK protection sales helped drive an increase in profits for the Royal London group in 2012.

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