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Things to think about when considering Income Protection, Critical Illness and Life Insurance
15th May 2008
Things to think about... Do you have dependents, like children, persistently ill family members or elderly parents? Do you have to make regular rent or mortgage to payments? Do you have a...
What Insurance Cover is Best For You?
15th May 2008
Different sorts of insurance policies are designed to mitigate against different problems, so it is important that we know something about the sorts of policies on offer and what they can do for us...
The Causes of Coronary Heart Disease (CHD)
12th May 2008
The most common cause of CHD is a build up of fatty tissue along the inside walls of the arteries, most relevantly the arteries leading to and from the heart (the coronary arteries). Medically this...
Friends Provident Improve Customer Satisfaction for Critical Illness Cover
11th May 2008
The FTSE 100 Index insurance and pensions company Friends Provident has stated that the number of claims for critical illness that have been declined on the basis of non-disclosure have decline by one...
Conference for Benchmark Definitions for Critical Illness (CI)
9th May 2008
Canadian company, Munich Re-Insurance, launched the World CI Conference in Toronto at the end of April in the hopes of establishing benchmark definitions for CI within insurance policies. The...
Benefits of Critical Illness Cover
9th May 2008
Critical illness cover for British citizens makes a lot of sense. If we are happy with the service given to us by the NHS then all we really need to worry about is loss of income resulting from a...
Breast Cancer
8th May 2008
With over 40,000 cases diagnosed every year, as many as 1 in 9 women in the UK will develop breast cancer at some point in their lives, making it the most common form of cancer within the UK and the...
CJD - Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
7th May 2008
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) is so called because it was first diagnosed by two German neurologists, Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt and Alfons Maria Jakob. Like fatal familial insomnia (FFI) and...
When Insurance Can Save
6th May 2008
One in three people will be positively diagnosed as having cancer within our lifetimes. The disease can hit at any time, although it does tend to affect the older people more critically. With some...
'Missing' Angina in Women
5th May 2008
In 2006 a team of medical scientists from University College London (UCL) found that although Angina is as common in women as it is in men, doctors routinely under-estimate the severity of their...
