TAL introduces refreshed product series

Life insurance specialist TAL has rolled out its upgraded Accelerated Protection product series to provide advisers with more options and flexibility to tailor the insurance cover to their customers’ unique needs.

“The new Accelerated Protection provides a host of improvements to ensure it remains one of the strongest products in the market,” said Niall McConville, TAL general manager of retail distribution. “And best of all under our guarantee of upgrade, we're passing improvements back to existing customers. We are always working to improve our products, so advisers can be even more confident in their recommendations to their customers. This continuous improvement ensures advisers’ customers have the cover they need now and into the future.”

The new and improved Acceleration Protection product series has the following features:

• More competitive premiums across a number of benefits, including improved pricing for new customers who bundle their cover with TAL;
• Enhanced critical illness insurance, including an enhanced angioplasty benefit for critical illness premier and improvements to the guaranteed future insurability benefit for all lump-sum benefits;
• New TPD insurance continuation option, including for white-collar occupations, allowing up to $1m of any occupation cover to continue to age 70; and
• New business expense option within income protection, to remove complexity and offer a unique solution for sole traders.