Group Protection

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.

Employers are embracing the removal of the default retirement age (DRA) but the majority are unaware of the opt-out for group risk benefits.

Aviva has seen its UK protection business grow amid strong overall performance from its life insurance and pensions business.

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 is proud to announce that Aviva, LV=, PruHealth, PruProtect and Simplyhealth are sponsoring its new website.

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.

COVER's editor Paul Robertson introduces the new website and invites you to come in and nose around.

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.