Income Protection

UK employers suffer almost one million long-term sickness absences each year, according to official government statistics released today.

MetLife is in talks with a major pension provider to integrate its group life and income protection products with the auto enrolment of the SME market beginning later this year.

MetLife Employee Benefits has expanded its group income protection offering with the launch of an early intervention policy.

Group risk insurer Ellipse has re-launched its group income protection (GIP) product, Interact, after revising the pricing basis.

Group schemes or individual quotes? The choice makes for successful IP, writes Richard Walsh.

Fiona Murphy finds the individual income protection market is going ‘back to basics' to target consumers

The introduction of simple protection products is being hampered by divisions among providers, writes John Letizia.

Think Tank Demos recently called for a minimum IP proposal along the lines of pension auto enrolment. John Letizia agrees.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has confirmed that it expects the independent assessment service to be phased in gradually across the country from October 2014, with the service being available nationally by April 2015.

One of the largest NHS contractors for pain management is to target the private health insurance (PMI) and protection sectors in the new year.