Group Protection

Aviva has increased its critical illness (CI) claims payment rate to 93% in the first six months of 2010.

Friends Provident has launched an absence tracking system to help employers tackle the £16.8bn cost of absence.

Protection providers have forgotten consumers in making products too complicated, according to LV=.

LV= has revealed strong protection new business figures for the first half of the year.

Canada Life is introducing telephone interviewing for all of its group insurance products.

PruProtect has revealed its new business grew by 98% to £10.9m (APE) in the first half of 2010.

It's a pleasant change to think positively about the direction of the protection market and to identify a significant opportunity for advisers.

IFAs still own the largest portion of the protection market despite its long-term sales slump, according to the FSA.

Increasing concerns from employers about workplace wellbeing could see a growth in demand for group healthcare benefits, according to new research.

The protection market has started to recover over the last year, but it is being propped up by resurging critical illness sales, according to FSA figures.