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There's no one size fits all underwriting
Simple underwriting is a hot topic. Various propositions have been brought to market in the last year with shorter, faster or streamlined underwriting.
Let’s talk about ‘embarrassing symptoms’
Bowel cancer is the second biggest cancer killer in the UK and accounted for 3% of AIG Life’s critical illness claims last year. Every 30 minutes someone dies from it but it’s largely curable if caught in early stages. Read more.
PODCAST: Protection for a whole new group
We sat down with Lee Lovett, Managing Director - Group Protection and Chris Morgan, Head of Group Protection Distribution to hear their thoughts on AIG now offering group risk products.
Underwriting blogs
Changing the way we underwrite
We’ve made two significant changes to our underwriting philosophy to make buying insurance even easier...
HIV: Huge advances bring insurance opportunities
The perception, understanding and treatment of HIV has taken huge leaps...
Motor Neurone Disease: An Underwriter’s Perspective
Professor Hawking suffered from MND but may know little else about it. We want to shed some light on...
Opening up more access to insurance
Offering insurance to as many people as possible has always been at the forefront of what we do...
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PODCAST: Underwriting simpler protection
Our Head of Underwriting and Claims Strategy, Debbie Bolton discusses underwriting...
Revolutionising Financial Underwriting
AIG Life is continuously streamlining processes to help you get your clients the protection they need...
Setting the pace for medical advancements
They are the size of a matchbox, and saves the lives of 25,000 people a year...
Behind the scenes: Meet our underwriters
Underwriting is fundamental in both the customer experience and in the profitability of life business...
What is actively at work?
We explain in a little more detail what we mean by actively at work and why it’s so important...
The deadliest killer you’ve never heard of
Sepsis is a huge, catastrophic overreaction of your immune system when fighting an infection...
Simple underwriting for raised blood pressure
We’re making it simpler for people with raised blood pressure to get life insurance...
Product blogs
Bridging the Gap: Income Protection & Diabetes
We want to make it easier for people with chronic medical conditions to get the insurance they need...
Critical illness recovery time - why don’t we talk about it?
It's unlikely that customers will know how long it can take to recover from a serious medical condition...
Introducing renewable term for business protection
We're always looking for ways to make the application journey as simple as possible...
Lifestyle shouldn’t stop your clients getting protection
The time-poor lifestyles of people in today’s society is impacting on many aspects of their life...
Support blogs
Income Protection: Top 5 Myths
AIG can help you explain to your clients why income protection is easy to apply for and accessible to many...
An afternoon with bereaved children
Bereaved children and a rugby-playing legend is an unusual pairing, and not one I expected to...
Our pledge is to go beyond the claim
Our aim is to support your clients through difficult times, be it death, diagnosis of serious illness, or...
3 top tips from the All Blacks Sevens
We were proud to host the much anticipated All Blacks Rugby Sevens breakfast meeting at...
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Mental health and insurance - It’s time to talk
For the first time, as a nation, we’re finding it easier to talk, to get help and to educate ourselves about mental illness.
How to support a child in time of grief
More than 100 children are bereaved of a parent every day in the UK...
What are capitalisation factors
We explain how we use capitalisation factors for death in service pensions...
Excepted vs. registered policies
We look at the differences between excepted group life and registered group life...
End of tax year protection considerations
As the end of the tax year approaches, many financial advisers’ attentions will understandably be drawn to maximising available contributions and tax reliefs...
New solutions to cover inheritance tax liabilities
As the nation’s wealth grows, so do the Government’s inheritance tax (IHT) receipts. In the 2017-18 tax year a record £5.2bn was paid, an increase of 8%...