Scottish Widows

Scottish Widows' Johnny Timpson highlights the need - and opportunity - to provide protection for self-employed workers and those with short-term contracts.

Scott Cadger runs through the four most common reasons people give for not taking out critical illness cover - and some suggestions on how advisers can offer reassurance on each in conversations with clients

15% of people saving monthly for care

As part of COVER's 20th Anniversary series, Fiona Murphy talks to Scottish Widows' Johnny Timpson about the critical illness market.

A mother and son have been charged with insurance fraud after the pair faked the mother's death to claim £140,000 worth of life insurance.

Scottish Widows Protect has added Synaptic Webline's multi-benefit quoting service to its Scottish Widows Protect offering.

Chancellor Phillip Hammond announced a further £2bn for social care funding as well as a Green Paper on social care. Fiona Murphy rounds up post-budget views from financial services.

LifeSearch has announced a deal with Scottish Widows that will see a dedicated team of specialist advisers offering business loan protection advice to SME customers through Lloyds Bank's Commercial Banking division.

Scottish Widows has introduced electronic General Practitioner (GP) reports into its protection policy underwriting process to make it simpler and quicker to obtain customers' medical information from their GP practice.

In the sixth of our series of monthly articles with Scottish Widows, Neil McKenzie talks about...