Welcome to this week’s Protection Update.
Please take the time to read through the update as there may be some information that is important to you.
Included in this week’s update:
Platform: Mortgage offers and documentation during this difficult time
Extensions to Mortgage Offers In light of the Covid-19 pandemic the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government have recently issued guidance for buyers and sellers to be more flexible on moving dates and [...]
Weekly Protection Update – 1st May 2020
Welcome to this week's Protection Update. Please take the time to read through the update as there may be some information that is important to you. Included in this week's update: Aviva resume medical [...]
Zurich announce premium flexibility
Now, more than ever, it is important that customers maintain the protection cover they have, and where possible, we’ve added extra flexibility to our protection products. If your clients’ income has been impacted by [...]
Aviva: Medical evidence requests to be resumed from 27th April
From Monday the 27th April we will resume requesting medical evidence for all applications in our pipeline, and also for all new applications. We previously stopped these requests in order to reduce pressures on [...]
British Friendly announce new underwriting approach
British Friendly have announce three new initiatives designed to help advisers put clients on risk quicker. The initiatives include the withdrawal of automatic requests for medical evidence, the introduction of a tele-interview in partnership with [...]
Vitality: Additional support for you and your clients
As the significant health crisis that is COVID-19 has developed, we have been and continue to work hard to adapt our approach, so that we can continue to provide services to you and your [...]
Legal and General: Underwriting continues to offer its market leading capability
Underwriting standards during CV19 Our underwriting team is committed to providing the same standards for new business decisions, set pre COVID-19, we are determined to help as many people as possible obtain the peace [...]
Scottish Widows: Covid-19 facts
Read our protection specific COVID -19 FAQs to help you through these difficult times. Find out more
Berkeley Alexander: Get yourself a Commercial Insurance Consultant for Free!
How would you like to have your own commercial insurance consultant on tap to train your team on the commercial insurance opportunity; advise on marketing this sector of your client base; deliver on an [...]
AIG: New flexible policy requests
We know that you’re doing as much as you can to help your clients. We wanted to let you know of a few changes we’ve made this week, designed to support your clients during [...]
Metlife: We’re running a third week of webinars!
Over the past two weeks, the MetLife team have ran two hugely successful MultiProtect webinars which over 760 advisers have viewed. These short 30 minute webinars, covering our claims position and relevancy in the [...]
Royal London: Intermediary Chief Executive, Isobel Langton is taking part in an upcoming FT adviser webinar
Join our Intermediary Chief Executive, Isobel Langton, on the upcoming FT adviser webinar where she’ll be discussing what great service looks like. Advisers are often encouraged to appraise providers on the service levels they [...]
Cura: Episode 7 of The Practical Protection Podcast features Steve Casey, Marketing Director of Square Health
In Episode 7 we welcome our second special guest to the Practical Protection Podcast, Steve Casey, Marketing Director of Square Health. Steve has worked within the financial services for many years, [...]
Paymentshield: Network communication – Geo Home insurance availability and CPD website update
Geo home insurance availability Geo have let Paymentshield know they’ll be temporarily unable to accept new Home Insurance policies and invite renewals from Monday 1 June 2020. Regrettably, we need to expire all Geo [...]