Income Protection

Group Risk Development (Grid) has released the first ever full set of collated claims figures from the group risk industry.

The government's controversial welfare reforms have received Royal Ascent and so been adopted into law.

More than a quarter of a million people are claiming Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) because of mental and behavioural disorders, research has revealed.

Unum has urged advisers to join it in targeting the ‘underserved' SME market to grow their income protection (IP) business.

Unum is to leave the individual protection market from 2 March.

COVER has launched a campaign, initially in partnership with the Protection Review, to reform the practice of writing list-based occupational definitions (Activities of Daily Living and Working - ADL and ADW) for income protection.

Doctors have hit back at proposals that would force them to encourage patients to stay in or go back to work as soon as possible.

The Protection Review and Income Protection Task Force (IPTF) have produced a list of the top ten things consumers should be aware of when purchasing income protection (IP).

The Income Protection Task Force (IPTF) is holding a heads of state meeting for CEOs of the major income protection providers.

Jelf has warned that many of the key recommendations of the Sickness Absence Review are unlikely to ever be realised and called its decision to ignore income protection (IP) as ‘madness'.