Don’t turn a health crisis into a financial crisis

We think nothing of paying for monthly protection cover on our smartphones, so maybe it’s time we did the same for life protection, writes Paul Merriman

Professor John Crown, Consultant Medical Oncologist, St Vincent’s University Hospital

What we do in the protection industry is important. Protection is sometimes forgotten by us all. Nobody likes to think of illness or mortality and so protection is subsequently thought of less and less, as pensions, mortgages, car and home insurance all compete for our limited financial-related attention spans.