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The Life Insurance protection gap

Life Insurance  policy holders have been told of the "protection gap" that is currently appearing and the need to regularly update and review life insurance requirements.Kelly Ostler-Coyle, spokeswoman for the Association of British Insurers, has recently pointed out that there is Life Insurance  gap because of the contrasts of what people think they are being covered for and what is actually on the insurance document."Obviously it's worth updating life insurance and thinking every couple

Women’s Life insurance to rise by 30%.

A new tax set up for life insurance  products plus other developments point to a rise in life insurance  premiums by up to 30%.George Osborne’s March 2011 budget suggests switching life insurance business from the ‘I minus E' tax regime will lead to premium increases.The move follows the recent European Court of Justice ruling on gender is also likely to push premiums up and now this change in the tax status looks to make a bad situation 30% worse for women buying life insurance .

The increasing case for Private Medical Insurance and Income Protection

Insurance companies such as Legal and General, BUPA, Aviva and Pru Health have joined Contact Insurance  in urging employees to look at Private Medical Insurance  and UK businesses to build health-based flexible benefits into remuneration packages for staff and take up the option of Group Income Protection insurance.Anecdotally, we can all relate to taking ‘duvet days’ and I am sure we all suspect that flu is sometime nothing more than a cold. These and many more conditions add weight to the number of sick days

Life Insurance is Life-style reassurance

Contact Insurance one of the UK's leading Life Insurance brokers  reveals that one third of UK have no financial safety netContact Insurance, one the UK's leading life insurance brokers , has recently completed their life insurance review. The report carries some startling facts about the state of the UK population's emergency provisions.Contact Insurance specialises in life insurance  and has identified that almost four million Britons have less than six months worth of

Keyman Insurance provides a key to risk management

Contact Insurance's recent seminar on insurable business risks highlighted both a lack of understanding and an increasing need for keyman insurance.David Yates, Head Of Marketing at Contact Insurance , suggests that many businesses are good at contingency planning for risks within predictable or 'believable' scenarios.  However, they are weak at contingency planning for emerging risks. Businesses are usually massively exposed by the time any proper risk assessment is undertaken and the impact would be business critical.Chief amongst such risks is that

Free guide to EU ruling on Gender Equality in Insurance Premiums

Contact Insurance, one of the UK's leading insurance brokers, has published A Guide to the EU Directive on Gender Equality in Insurance due for delivery on March 1 2011.On 1 March 2011 the EU Court of Justice (ECJ) is expected to rule that all insurance premiums should be the same for men and women. And an ECJ judgment cannot be appealed.In response, Contact Insurance , one of the UK's leading insurance brokers, has published A Guide to the EU Directive on Gender Equality in Insurance. The guide is free and can be downloaded from http://www.

Relevant Life Insurance cuts the cost of cover in half

A new type of Life Insurance has recently hit the market. Relevant Life Insurance allows any employed person to cut the cost of their life insurance by nearly 50%.Relevant Life Insurance is not entirely new. Similar insurance, known as ‘Death in Service’, has been around for years. Such policies come in the form of an employee benefit. They usually payout three or four times the individual’s salary should they die in the employ of the company. However Death In Service schemes are usually only available to larger organizations and at the discretion of the company.The main benefit of

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