While protection is a healthy business, advisers can expect an "exponential" growth in competion from internet aggregator sites an industry consultant has said.

The Private Medical Insurance (PMI) sector has formed a social and shooting club, open to both providers and advisers.

Intermediaries are overwhelmingly (91%) in favour of commission options in the group insurance market, Canada Life Group Insurance has said.

Friends Life has launched a selling techniques video for IFAs.

Andy Milburn has joined Ageas Protect as the provider's new head of marketing.

A third of the industry believes comparison sites will be the most popular way to buy protection in a decade, while 66% expect fewer IFAs selling protection, according to the Protection Review.

Employers are still finding the timely return to work of absent employees challenging - yet Government plans are likely to make this harder.

More than half of those with life cover fail to upgrade after significant changes in their circumstances, according to Sainsbury's Life Insurance.

The majority of brokers feel penalties for insurance fraud should be higher and have called for a central database of fraudsters, research has found.

Cancer patients could lose up to £94 a week in benefits as the government cuts costs, Macmillan Cancer Support has warned.