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Health insurance news: Scottish Equitable

Scottish Equitable, a long established insurance company is owned by leading European financial services group AEGON and deals only via financial advisers. Scottish Equitable Protect is a protection specialist.

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AEGON sponsors UK tennis AEGON is to become the first ever Lead Partner of British Tennis following the launch of the new commercial programme in early summer this year. AEGON has signed a landmark five-year deal that will run from 2009 through to 2013.
AEGON Scottish Equitable enhances its individual Critical Illness proposition AEGON Scottish Equitable has added five more illnesses, taking the total number of conditions covered to 36. In addition, the company has improved three illness definitions.
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 income protection and critical illness insurance plans. Each insurer has pledged to:Develop and promote products and services that meet the needs of customers Provide customers with clear information and good service when they buy products Provide...
Tax efficient Life/Pension Term Assurance - No insurer has permanently withdrawn from offering PTA Despite what you may have read on other web sites, in the trade press, national and local papers and heard or seen, NO insurer has yet confirmed they have permanently withdrawn from offering Pension Term Assurance. The following insurers have either told us direct or by an official press release, that their product is suspended from any more new business or enquiries. The suspension will stay...
Aegon launches reducing life cover for businesses AEGON Scottish Equitable has introduced a reducing life protection benefit to its business protection product. Reducing life protection will apply to guaranteed rates only, while reducing life with critical illness will apply to guaranteed and reviewable rates. Life insurance: News update: July 2007 Related linksAegon Scottish Equitable - company profile Find out more about life insurance Get a...
Need for business loan protection According to Aegon UK, the business protection market is ready for growth. Most small businesses and self-employed people, who borrow money from a bank or elsewhere, do not protect the loan. So if they become ill or injured, or even die, they are unable to continue with the loan repayments. The lender will want their money, so for death this will take a chunk out of the estate, while if unable to...
Aegon Scottish Equitable product updates The Personal Protection and Mortgage Protection product menus have been updated and merged into Personal Protection. Critical illness definitions have been updated in line with ABI guidelines. Index linking and guaranteed insurability options are now available on all products. A lot of minor and confusing options and benefits have been removed as part of a product simplification process. Life...
Critical Illness Insurance : Consumers lack understanding Consumers have a worrying lack of understanding around the critical illness application process, according to a survey by critical illness insurers Scottish Equitable Protect. Of the 1,536 people surveyed, 31.6% were unaware that if they do not fully disclose all of their medical history information a claim could be turned down for non-disclosure. A further 40.7% said they believe an insurer...
Scottish Equitable publish claim figures The latest insurer to publish claims information for 2004/2005 on critical illness, is Scottish Equitable Protect. 72% of claims were paid out, totalling over £21 million.28% of claims didn't pay out — 63% due to non-disclosure, with the remaining 36% not meeting policy definition or having a policy exclusion applied. The insurer stresses the importance of getting full details of a...