Protection
UPDATE
Legal & General
WORKING HARDER TO MAKE YOUR LIFE EASIER 
Issue 72 Aug 2007

New electronic rates for Term Assurance and Critical Illness Cover

As part of Legal & General's long-term commitment to the protection market, we will be introducing a further reprice to our electronic premiums for our term assurance products, with effect from 5 August 2007.

Due to the intensely competitive nature of the protection market we have responded where necessary to recent market movements by our competitors.

This reprice affects Electronic IFA premiums for Level and Decreasing Term Assurance and Level and Decreasing Term Assurance with Critical Illness Cover (guaranteed and reviewable premiums).

This reprice maintains our competitive position on these products.

The table below gives a broad overview of these rate changes:

Electronic IFA

 

Term Assurance (Life only)             53% of premiums will be reduced 41% of premiums will remain unchanged 6% of premiums will be increased            
Term Assurance with CIC (guaranteed premiums) 24% of premiums will be reduced              72% of premiums will remain unchanged    4% of premiums will be increased 
Term Assurance with CIC (reviewable premiums) 17% of premiums will be reduced 79% of premiums will remain unchanged 4% of premiums will be increased  

 

The above movements relate to all cells for the products listed, however please note that the change in premiums will differ according to individual quote details.

The new premiums will be available from the following systems: Legal & General’s Online Protection (OLP) and portals such as the Exchange, Webline, Assureweb, Bankhall Online and Lifequote.

Transitional Arrangements

  Current Rates* New Rates
Date applications have to be received by
Legal & General Services Department  
5 September 2007 eApplications received
post 5 August 2007 will
receive the new rates**
Last date for policy authorisation 5 December 2007 N/A

* You will need to follow the usual Online Protection manual process by contacting your service team, for applications submitted from 5 August 2007 where you require rates quoted prior to this date.

** If you have saved a case and obtained an acceptance in principle prior to 5 August 2007 and then want to submit the case via OLP post 5 August 2007, OLP should allow this to happen as long as the case is not older than four months from the original quote date. 

We understand that in some circumstances it is not always possible to adhere to the four month pipeline rules. For example, when the product is mortgage related and the sale of the property has not completed or the case is still being underwritten. Therefore, we will extend the deadline to a maximum of six months from the reprice date for cases where the delay is out of the agent and the customer's control.

Contact Us

Our specialist Protection sales team are only a phone call away. If you would like further information on the above, please contact us.

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This is not a consumer advertisement. It is intended for professional financial advisers and should not be relied upon by private individuals or any other persons.
 
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