Life Insurance
LV= launches level and decreasing term assurance online
Leading protection specialist LV= has announced that its Level and Decreasing Term Assurance products, as well as optional Critical Illness cover, are now available on the moneysupermarket.com price comparison website.
Bright Grey launches a new low cost protection product
Bright Grey, a protection specialist within the Royal London Group, has launched a new simplified product aimed at consumers who choose to buy insurance without seeking professional advice first.
Don’t undervalue mums this Mother’s Day
Protection specialists LifeSearch have drawn up a three-point plan that every mother should keep in mind to make sure the family finances stay healthy.
£32,000 a year - that's the Value of a Mum
Legal & General's latest ‘Value of a Mum' survey finds that the value of the work that Mums do around the home is £32,812.
Why and how giving up smoking effects life insurance
Insurancewide.com - Facts and Advice: No Smoking Day on March 11 gave some the opportunity to give up the habit, but any day can be the perfect day to start a clean healthy life and save money too: smoking has a major effect on the cost of life insurance premiums.
Legal & General reduces declined CIC claims by 42%
Bernie Hickman, Managing Director of Protection said: "This is further evidence that Legal & General pays out when customers need it most, which is what really matters to a policyholder.
No Smoking Day could help lighten life insurance premiums
With over 1 million people planning to quit on No Smoking Day this week (Wednesday 11th March), Norwich Union, soon to be Aviva, advises that people could get dramatically lower life insurance premiums by giving up the so called "evil weed".
Kick the habit and save a packet on life insurance
With No Smoking Day (NSD) on March 11 and the second anniversary of the smoking ban on the horizon, moneysupermarket.com reveals those who kick the habit could see a difference in their wallets as well as their health; saving on average £8,404 on combined Critical Illness Cover (CIC) and life cover, or up to £1,725 on a single life insurance policy.
Swap ash for cash on No Smoking Day
No Smoking Day on 11 March will give smokers a great opportunity to kick the habit and save themselves thousands of pounds on their insurance in the process.
Young people are ignoring Life Cover
The number of young people who are buying life cover and other forms of financial protection is at an all-time low.
FSA leaves policyholders in the lurch
As the Financial Services Authority backtracks on its commitment to stop mis-selling costs being charged to inherited estates, Which? chief executive, Peter Vicary-Smith, says: "The FSA has, once again, left policyholders in the lurch and sided with the financial services industry.
AXA increases life cover age limit to 85
AXA has raised the age limit on its life cover from 70 to 85 in response to changing social trends.
Financial crisis prompts more calls on care advice
Against the backdrop of a deepening financial crisis, leading independent care advisers, Grace Consulting reports more and more people are seeking help in the struggle to find elderly care solutions for themselves and their relatives.
Think twice before cancelling that protection policy
PruProtect, the joint venture between Prudential and South African market leader Discovery, has highlighted the potential dangers of cancelling existing protection insurance policies.
Tesco Life Insurance offers £50 gift card
Tesco is giving a £50 gift card to all new Life Insurance customers who get a quote by 4 March 2009 and then take out the policy. The offer is supported by Tesco's Price Promise - customers who find a like-for-like policy cheaper elsewhere will receive an additional 1,000 Clubcard points.