What are the age-limits for income protection insurance? In this insight we bring you a brief summary of the age-limits for income protection insurance, covering insurer's maximum entry and finishing ages, as well as minimum entry age.   Read here

VitalityLife Clients need actual value - not 'added value' To really deliver value, protection should offer more than just additional services near – or at the point of – claim, writes Vitality’s Nick Telfer. The evolution of protection policies has seen growth of – what the industry likes to call – ‘added-value services’. Although, I [...]

British Friendly enhances its Income Protection proposition with new and improved value-added services… Healthcare services are stretched, so British Friendly has introduced Square Health’s Clinic in a Pocket app to help your clients and their families get faster access to health and wellbeing support every day at no extra cost. Clinic in a Pocket includes [...]

Protection Update 18th February 2022 https://youtu.be/m7y_3UORcvs Joint Life Policies & Unmarried Couples – Use a Trust? Hello and welcome to this week’s protection update. Now on Wednesday this week, we looked at the subject of Trust on our “Writing Protection Policies into Trust” webinar. Did you attend?  I know quite a [...]

Vitality’s Serious Illness Cover covers significantly more conditions than any other provider and stays in place for longer. What do a 25-year-old male suffering from Crohn’s disease, a 35-year-old female diagnosed with a pulmonary embolism and a 32-year-old male who experience a detached retina all have in common? Simple. They all received a Serious Illness Cover payment [...]

How to sell GI products with LV= GI It's only a few weeks now until the transition from L&G GI is complete and you can start selling General Insurance products from LV= GI on 21 February 2022. We're really excited for you to start this journey with us and we want to make it as [...]

Advisers, has a delayed GP report caused a bad client outcome? We're helping promote the increased uptake of eGPRs... In collaboration with the Protection Distributors Group (PDG) and the Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI), we are supporting an initiative to increase the uptake and use of electronic-GPRs. To highlight the benefits of using electronic GP [...]

We are now live on The Exchange We'd like to announce that last week our over-50s Guaranteed Life Assurance and Income Protection went live on Iress’ market-leading quote and apply portal, The Exchange. This partnership allows us to drive our expansion strategy and increase the distribution footprint of our protection offering. "We’re delighted to partner with National [...]

Protection Update 11th February 2022 https://youtu.be/HxMDvGuGGrE Protection Update 11th February 2022 UnderwriteMe coming soon Compare Quality Reports & New client facing Sales Aids Writing Protection into Trust – Webinars Hi everyone and welcome to this weeks protection update. Hopefully you managed to join Bob and myself at our roadshows over this last [...]

What are electronic GPRs and how can they help speed up protection applications? This is the fourth post in our series covering our January Protection Forum. In this section, participants discussed why electronic GP reports are so valuable and how the protection community can help to increase their take-up. Click here to read more Read the full update here [...]