Product Review of the Month
Skandia UK Critical Illness
Skandia
May 2013
Skandia Life has re-entered the protection insurance market, having temporarily exited it in August 2010 after being a major player for 20+ years. The new plan is a modified version of its old plan and offers life cover with critical illness cover. Terms of 5-40 years are available, along with a...
Cigna Energy Plans
Cigna Global Health Benefits Europe
March 2013
Cigna’s latest offering is a range of international private medical insurance (iPMI) plans aimed at rig workers in the oil and gas sector. As Cigna points out, this group of workers have completely different working and living conditions to the average expatriate worker. There are three cover...
Engage Mutual One Fund
Engage Mutual
March 2013
Engage Mutual has updated its employer-paid One Fund health cash plan (the plan is also available as an employee-paid plan, with six benefit levels and a £25 excess for all benefits), removing the excess on four of six treatment areas and introducing the option of a higher premium level (£25 a...
Cigna HealthCare Choices
Cigna UK HealthCare Benefits
March 2013
Our March Product of the Month is Cigna's HealthCare Choices. The provider has relaunched its corporate private medical insurance (PMI) plan, which is now called Company Health and makes up one third of its new HealthCare Choices proposition, which includes two new plans: * YourHealth. This...
Ageas Protect Critical Illness Cover
Ageas Protect
February 2013
Ageas Protect has introduced a number of updates to its existing critical illness (CI) cover plan, partly to help attract younger customers, using features that are more relevant to their health risks. The changes include: - In total 47 critical conditions are now covered. - Of which, 17 are...
The HI Profile: Aetna's Nic Brown
Health Insurance editor David Sawers asks the questions
"The cost of parents’ contributions to the home is a great conversation starter for advisers" Bonnie Burns of Legal and General