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AXA reduces prices on life, critical illness and income protection products AXA has revised its rates for the following products: Level and decreasing life cover Level and decreasing guaranteed life or earlier critical illness cover Level and decreasing reviewable life or earlier critical illness cover Level and decreasing guaranteed standalone critical illness cover Level and decreasing reviewable standalone critical illness cover Guaranteed income...
More women should have life insurance, says a man Iain Mallon of AXA Life comments; “Women should consider taking insurance. They are not taking the time to think about what would happen if they were unable to work because of illness, or how their family would cope financially if they died. More women need to be encouraged to consider things such as life insurance and health insurance, especially younger ones. Women have to look at the risks...
Pensioners embrace cosmetic surgery Almost quarter of a million retirees resort to cosmetic surgery to look young says AXA UK AXA research has found that the stigma surrounding plastic surgery is vanishing with over 230,000 UK pensioners admitting to cosmetic enhancement by surgery. Retired people are so keen to embrace plastic surgery that one in ten would go under the knife or have botox injections if it meant changing something...
Useful facts for those considering health insurance AXA has produced a range of useful facts including: One in three of us will develop cancer Every two minutes somebody suffers a heart attack A thousand people under 30 suffer a stroke every year Two and a half million are living with heart disease A quarter of a million live with a disability caused by a stroke Long-term Incapacity Benefit is only £84.50 a week
New child private medical insurance from AXA AXA PPP healthcare has introduced a private medical insurance plan exclusively for children. First Healthcare has been designed to offer reassurance to parents at an affordable price. The plan covers early access to consultations with specialists as well as outpatient tests and scans to establish early diagnosis. And, if hospital treatment is required as an in-patient or a day-patient,...
Nine out of ten customers satisfied with tele-underwriting Nine out of ten customers are satisfied with the tele-underwriting service they received when taking out protection cover with AXA, a survey shows. The insurer found 89 % of customers were completely satisfied with the service, while a further 10 % were fairly satisfied.
AXA launches new Independent Travellers insurance for growing market of 'go-it-alone' holiday makers AXA has launched an extension to its existing travel product for independent travellers. The new optional extension costs as little as an additional £10 for annual European cover. It covers travellers for a number of areas such as problems with flight cancellations or delays, missed connections or the customer being denied boarding.
AXA to launch claims guarantee on term life insurance AXA Protection has linked up with LifeSearch to pilot a claims guarantee on term life insurance. The pilot aims to test the appetite of consumers to buy a guaranteed product and build trust in the industry that insurers payout on claims. If the pilot is successful, it will be the first time in the UK that a full two-year non-contestability guarantee will be brought to market.
AXA cuts rates across protection range AXA has cut rates across its life protection range to keep up with an increasingly price-driven market. The biggest drop, of 9%, is for its Guaranteed Level Life Cover with an average reduction of 6% across all products. Other covers affected include Decreasing Life Cover and Earlier Critical Illness Cover.
Expatriate insurance firm receives licence AXA Insurance Gulf has received its medical licence from the General Authority for Health Services (GAHS) in Abu Dhabi. The licence has been issued in view of the law passed by the GAHS earlier this year, which states that it is mandatory for companies operating in Abu Dhabi to cover their expatriate staff with a national health insurance policy. It is anticipated that this law will soon be...
LifeSearch launches unique claims guarantee pilot with AXA Protection specialists LifeSearch has linked up with AXA to trial a life product that is guaranteed to pay out on death. The life insurance product, which is being offered by a pilot group of LifeSearch advisers over the next few months, will guarantee full payment if a claim is made after a two-year period, even if consumers haven't disclosed important health information on their application...
AXA seeks higher sums insured for business protection AXA plans to revamp its protection software in order to introduce higher sums assured for its business protection offering. Business protection carries large sums assured because cover is usually in five-year terms. But AXA's software automatically raises premiums too high when computing large sums assured. For example, if the sum assured was £400,000 the monthly premium would be around...
Britons are more likely to have life insurance than their European counterparts Around 71% of people in the UK have at least one life insurance policy, compared with 45% of people in Italy and 53% in both Germany and Spain, according to Axa. The insurer found that buying a home was the most common trigger leading to people in the UK taking out life cover at 41%, while 11% took out a policy after receiving financial advice. But the research found that just 20% of Britons have...
AXA cuts rates on half of protection accounts AXA has revised its rates on a number of protection products by cutting prices on 41% of premiums with an average reduction of 3%. Products affected include level life cover, decreasing life cover, guaranteed level life or earlier critical illness cover and guaranteed decreasing life or earlier critical illness Iain Mallon at AXA, says: “These new rates for the AXA Protection Account will be...
Travel health insurance - the cost of dying It costs an average of nearly £6,000 to die in the UK after the cost of a funeral rose by 10% during the past year. The average cost of a funeral is now £2,390, with cremations, which account for 72% of funerals, costing around £2,160 and burials costing £2,620, according to financial services group AXA Sun Life Direct (ASLD). But the funeral is only the beginning of the costs...
Prolific critical illness lists are not helping market Axa has hit out at rival protection providers for concentrating on the volume of conditions covered by critical illness plans, rather than its relevance to customers. Following the recent changes made by the Association of British Insurers (ABI) to Critical Illness definitions, Iain Mallon, director of protection marketing at Axa, says the insurer has used the opportunity to reviews its CI...
Critical illness products updated AXA have updated their Critical Illness Cover in the AXA Protection Account in light of the ABI's new definitions, and taken the opportunity to revamp the whole offering. Cover now includes Total Mastectomy Cover for carcinoma in-situ of the breast. It now covers 32 critical illnesses, including two new covers: Traumatic Head Injury, mainly caused by road traffic accidents and leaves a claimant...