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Health insurers : Friends Provident

Friends Provident is a leading financial services group
Has 170 years experience in protection insurance

Product information and contact details

Individual income protection insurance
Individual critical illness insurance
Life Insurance
Contact details

Individual Income Protection Insurance

Income Protection plans

Mortgage Payment Protection plans

Unemployment Cover

Individual Critical Illness Insurance

Critical Illness

Critical Illness Cover

Life Insurance

Term Life

Life Cover

Contact details

Company name	Friends Provident The Blue Line Ltd
Web site	www.friendsprovident.co.uk
Address	72-122 Castle Street Salisbury SP1 3SH
Tel	0870 607 1352
Email	tellmemore@friendsprovident.co.uk

Last updated: 4 February 2008

Friends Provident news

2007 critical illness statistics

Friends Provident has released its critical illness claims data for 2007. This is the first full year of data available, since the insurer changed...
Friends Provident withdraws scary income protection mailshot

Friends Provident has been criticised by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) for sending out a mailshot that could be mistaken for medical test...
Health insurance companies make customer pledge

26 health insurance companies have signed up to the Customer Impact Scheme, an initiative to provide excellent standards of service to purchasers of...
Tax efficient Life/Pension Term Assurance - No insurer has permanently withdrawn from offering PTA

Despite what you may have read on other web sites, in the trade press, national and local papers and heard or seen, NO insurer has yet confirmed they...
Three out of four Brits have no will power

Three quarters of people in the UK do not have a will - leaving their families walking a financial tightrope when they die, says new research from...
Friends Provident enters business protection market

Friends Provident has become the latest insurer to enter into the business protection market. It has launched a Business Protection Plan which...
Friends Provident enhances its financial underwriting requirements to make life even easier

Friends Provident has introduced new evidence requirements and increased the limits for financial underwriting on life cover, life cover with...
Friends Provident review may recommend sale

Friends Provident, which in 2007 failed in its plans to merge with Resolution, is undertaking a strategic review that could lead to a sale of all or...
Brits prefer mobile phones to life insurance

Life and pensions company Friend Provident, has found that 54% of people questioned in its Protection Survey had no life insurance. Of the 46% of...
Friends Provident unveils new income protection model

Friends Provident, the income protection market leader, has linked up with MorganAsh to provide a tele-interviewing service to speed up income...
Resolution buys Friends Provident

Although sold as a merger, owners of Scottish Provident, Resolution, have effectively agreed to takeover Friends Provident. Resolution has about...
Scottish Provident brand to be retained in merger

Resolution and Friends Provident have confirmed that the Scottish Provident brand will be retained should owners Resolution buy Friends Provident....
Friends Provident for sale

Although talked of as a merger, in reality, life insurer Friends Provident is for sale. Friends Provident, the FTSE 100 life insurer, looks set to...
A first on critical illness non-disclosure

Friends Provident will pay a proportion of a critical illness claim where unrelated non-disclosure has happened. This initiative means that provided...
Friends Provident celebrate 175 years

Friends Provident has launched a new history and future section on its website www.friendsprovident.com/175, celebrating the company's 175 year...
Friends Provident removes all standard exclusions from income protection benefits

Friends Provident has removed the HIV/AIDS and war exclusions on its Individual and Executive Income Protection products, making it the first UK life...
Greenbee : The John Lewis Partnership teams up with Friends Provident

From 2007 Friends Provident will offer life assurance policies to Greenbee customers. Insurance company Friends Provident has been selected by The...
Figures for rejection of claims under critical illness insurance

Until recently, insurers resisted pressure from consumer groups to release figures to counter anecdotal evidence that many would be claimants were...
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