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When you think of hazardous pastimes some of the first ones that come to mind are probably rock climbing, base jumping, caving, scuba diving, sailing, etc.

can imagine what you are thinking right now. Musculosk…what? This is just a fancy word that groups together conditions that affect the body’s skeletal and/or muscular systems.

When you arrange life insurance, critical illness cover, income protection or private medical insurance you will often need to tell the insurer of any heart condition(s) that you have.

Alan Knowles, Managing Director of Cura Financial Services, is appointed as the new chairman for the Protection Distributors Group. Read the full article here.

So this popped up in a conversation I had recently and to be honest it scared me quite a bit. The answer is no. I cannot afford to retire tomorrow.

One of the most important things to do when arranging insurance if you have a mental health disorder, is to speak to someone that you feel comfortable with.

There are quite a few jobs that spring to mind when we think of hazardous occupations: armed services personnel, offshore worker, bomb disposal experts, etc.

When you first come to arrange insurance it can sometimes feel like a great big jumble of numbers and options, making it really hard to know where to start. In an ideal world everyone would have Life Insurance, Critical Illness Cover,