Income Protection

Aviva has reviewed its occupational classes, resulting in 95% of new clients being offered own occupation for income protection (IP) it has also moved its non-medical limits.

Mortgage payment protection and short-term income irotection specialist i:protect has said it is in talks with an unnamed charity partner to enter the group market through an online portal.

Exeter Family Friendly has backed COVER and the Protection Review's IP Campaign against the use of occupational definitions in income protection policies.

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.