Protection specialist and former Associate Director of the ABI, Nick Kirwan has joined the executive team of the Income Protection Task Force.

Zurich's 2012 critical illness claim statistics for its life policy customers in the UK show 90% of claims as successful with payments amounting to over £59.9million.

Simplyhealth is targeting £150,000 to fund pioneering research into the link between heart health and dental health.

Up to one in five of adviser firms may have missed out on extra sales, through failure to market the gender directive, according to the Protection Review.

It is with regret that I am already breaking my new year's resolution.

In the first of a series aimed at all areas of financial services, F&TRC Protection Forum has compiled a matrix detailing where providers stand with regards to treatment of existing policies.

PruHealth and PruProtect are to initiate a joint 2013 marketing campaign, highlighting the virtues of their Vitality programme, featuring Jessica Ennis.

CIExpert has released its assessment of changes Aegon has made to its critical illness policy.

In the first of a planned series of protection policy improvements, Ageas Protect has extended its existing partnership with Best Doctors and now gives all new customers access to expert medical opinions as soon as their policy goes on-risk.

The benefits of group risk products are severley restricted if payouts are not recieved in a timely manner. John Ritchie airs his concerns.