Income Protection

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'.

The imminent introduction of auto-enrolment looks set to trigger increased investment in employee benefits, according to research from Group Risk Development (Grid).

Absence management procedures have not kept pace with technology and the way Britain works, resulting in serious welfare, management and productivity issues, a new report has said.

Ellipse has entered the group income protection (GIP) market with the launch of its InteractPlus product which includes an integrated absence management system.

Mental health claims are growing and now make up a third of all those received on group income protection (GIP) policies, according to Legal & General.