Insurance Age blog: Why can't banks leave insurance to the experts?

Personally I am quite grateful to banks and the practice of conditional lending. If banks hadn't been doing this and luring small commercial clients away from brokers then I wouldn't have written a story late last year exposing the whole grubby little affair and have consequently won Scoop of the Year at the British Insurance Brokers' Association Journalist Awards.

Pushing vanity and ego aside for a moment though, the fact that I have been approached by several brokers and told that, 10 months on, this practice is still going on in certain quarters is pretty galling to say the least. Coupled with the fact that Santander have had to pull Aviva's protection products off the shelf this week because its staff can't sell them properly, it really does make you wonder what banks are playing at.

Surely the whole payment protection debacle would have been enough of