LV= is testing the water over new product designs on a work site basis with its own workers.

Holloway Friendly has upgraded its system in an effort to make quotations and applications quicker and easier for advisers.

The Money Advice service has hit back at suggestions it will be axed in two years.

There is an urgent need to assess long term care in terms of the benefits it brings, rather than its costs, if funding allocation arguments in local councils are to be won, experts have said.

LV= paid out 95% of underwritten protection claims in 2012. This includes 99% of life cover claims, 91% of critical illness claims, 88% of income protection claims, and 98% of unemployment claims.

LV= is to shortly launch a campaign aimed at offering basic protection to the home renters market.

Scottish widows has warned that over half (52%) of the UK population is reliant on a single income in order to make ends meet for their family.

Health Shield has announced gross annual premium income of over £25 million after a year of organic growth.

Legal & General has said Group Income Protection (IP) declinature figures for 2012, were down from 2.2% in 2011 to 0.8 in 2012.

Critical illness insurance database CIExpert has released an analysis of Legal & General's alterations to its critical illness products.