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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...
Genetic Testing | Insurance Cover
18th June 2008
Over the next few articles we will be looking at the topical issue of predictive genetic testing, the laws surrounding it and how it effects, if at all, insurance availability (particularly critical...
Prizes for Healthy Living
17th June 2008
Insurance giant, Prudential, is offering 40% of Mark Warner holidays and £10 Eurostar tickets, two-for-the-price-of-one Cineworld cinema tickets twenty times as many Nectar points from...
Killing for Insurance Mk.II
16th June 2008
Another day another plot to kill for life insurance money. I thought this sort of thing only happened in Agatha Christie novels but what with Fadri Nasri having his wife killed recently to claim on...
Everyman Male Cancer Awareness Month
13th June 2008
This month marks the 11th annual Everyman Male Cancer Awareness Month, designed to raise awareness of the common male cancers (like prostate and testicular). However the month also highlights the...
Barclays Selling Assurance Business
12th June 2008
High street bank Barclays is looking for bidder to purchase the life assurance arm of its business, which handles about £7 billion. Market commentators value the Barclays subsidiary as being...
'Medicinal' Marijuana and Liability
12th June 2008
Tension is brewing between state and federal law in the USA concerning employment rights and the use of prescription marijuana ('weed'), which is permitted by state law in California. Having...
Dubai Insurance Co. Merger
11th June 2008
William Russell, an international insurance specialist for expatriates, and Dubai Insurance Co. have merged to create a new range of international income protection, health and life insurance...
