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PruProtect bundles critical illness insurance with medical cover

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010 by Fiona Coyle

PruProtect bundles critical illness insurance with medical cover

PruProtect’s new Health Cover Optimiser combines critical illness insurance with its private medical insurance added at a 25% discount. This gives you a lump sum plus costs towards medical or hospital bills – various combinations are possible. Click headline to read more.

Telling FIBs – Family Income Benefit Insurance

Friday, June 11th, 2010 by Fiona Coyle

Telling FIBs - Family Income Benefit Insurance

Family income benefit insurance or FIB is a lesser-known life insurance policy that pays a yearly income, rather than a lump sum, to your family. FIB is ideal for funding education for your children, or the costs of childcare. It’s also a lot cheaper than traditional ‘lump sum’ life cover. Read more by clicking the headline above.

Costs to rise for life and critical illness insurance

Wednesday, June 9th, 2010 by Fiona Coyle

Costs to rise for life and critical illness insurance

Insurers predict that the cost to employers of providing life and critical illness insurance, and income protection insurance for employees, will rise steadily into 2012. How will this affect you? Read more by clicking on this headline.

Women breadwinners ignore life and critical illness insurance – AXA

Friday, May 21st, 2010 by Fiona Coyle

Women breadwinners ignore life and critical illness insurance - AXA

While the woman is increasingly the main breadwinner in the UK household, she fails to realise that this has created a need for her to take life and critical illness insurance, according to AXA.

Income Protection Insurance – Workers return to work before fully fit

Friday, May 14th, 2010 by Fiona Coyle

Income Protection Insurance - Workers return to work before fully fit

Most UK workers would return to work before fully recovered from illness, for cash reasons, according to Aviva. Taking income protection insurance would give them time to fully recover, and not risk their health.

Business owners! Life insurance cover can protect your company profits

Friday, May 14th, 2010 by Fiona Coyle

Life insurance cover and critical illness insurance can be used in many ways to protect a company’s profits, if a key employee falls ill or dies. For example, life insurance cover can repay a company loan, or critical illness insurance can enable business partners to buy out a partner who must leave a partnership through ill-health.

Buying critical illness insurance cover? Think of the Icelandic volcano

Monday, April 19th, 2010 by Fiona Coyle

Buying critical illness insurance cover? Think of the Icelandic volcano

Critical illness insurance cover is an area where understanding the terms and exclusions of the policy is essential. The importance of knowing the exclusions in all types of insurance is highlighted again this week, as thousands of stranded holidaymakers find their travel insurance is invalid, because the eruption of the Icelandic volcano is considered an ‘Act of God’.

Personal Insurance essential for single income families

Thursday, April 8th, 2010 by Fiona Coyle

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Single income families are on the rise, and the number of stay at home dads has increased tenfold to 600,000 in 10 years. Personal insurance, including life cover and critical illness cover, are all the more important to protect a family from losing its only income, with no second income to fall back on.

Ten life insurance facts that could cost you money

Friday, April 2nd, 2010 by Fiona Coyle

Many factors are considered when calculating life insurance premiums – including your occupational risks. Whether you are a zookeeper or a window cleaner, buying life insurance can be a game of snakes and ladders.

Cut life insurance premiums by quitting smoking

Monday, March 8th, 2010 by Fiona Coyle

Cut Life Insurance Premiums

A 45-year-old male smoker can save £276 on his annual life insurance premiums, and £1,000 per year on tobacco spending, by quitting cigarettes. The savings on tobacco will more than pay for the life insurance cover, according to Aviva.

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