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Types of Life Insurance - Protection Only
7th July 2008
Generally speaking there are two basic 'types' of life insurance available to consumers - protection only policies and endowment or 'whole-life' policies. Protection only policies are what we have...
Planning For Your Life Insurance
6th July 2008
Before you start looking for a life insurance policy you should first calculate as accurately as possible what your financial worth is to your household. That may sound a bit cold, but just consider...
Life Insurance
5th July 2008
Over the next few articles we will be looking more closely at life insurance. To start though, let's plough the well established field of life insurance. As discussed in previous articles, life...
Providing Life Insurance
1st July 2008
Whatever sort of life insurance you go for it is a good idea that you shop around for the policy that you think we be best for you and your circumstances. Make sure you have a clear picture of what...
Quit Smoking for Cheaper Insurance
30th June 2008
In Telegraph Online today (Monday, 30/06/2008) there is an article discussing the affects of smoking on the cost of life insurance premiums and critical illness insurance premiums (read the full...
Soldiers | Insurance
30th June 2008
For the men and women serving in the British armed forces, insurance can be a tricky subject. The Ministry of Defence offers a certain amount of compensation for service men and women who suffer...
Free Heart Tests in Bolton
23rd June 2008
The 'Big Bolton Health Check' was launched this month in an effort to raise awareness of heart disease - still the biggest killer in the UK - and intends to insure that thousands of people tested over...
Moratorium on Predictive Genetic Testing Extended
23rd June 2008
Just to lay any ghosts to rest from the previous few articles, the Association of British Insurers has extended the 2001 moratorium that prevents insurers using the results of predictive genetic tests...
Genetic Testing | Insurance Cover, Continued 2.
20th June 2008
According to the director of the Genetic Interest Group, Alistair Kent, many people in the UK feel that if insurers were given access to their genetic make-up they (the public) would end up having to...
Genetic Testing | Insurance Cover, Continued.
19th June 2008
The subject of predictive genetic testing - the US experience of which was discussed in our last article - is also a growing issue of concern here in the United Kingdom. In 2001, the British...
