Income Protection

The overwhelming majority of the younger generation would not consider taking out insurance, a Bright Grey report has shown.

Cirencester Friendly has called for an industry standard for income protection claims statistics to be provided after publishing its annual claims statistics.

LV= and Aviva stood out with four gongs each at the LifeSearch awards in London yesterday.

Parents are "massively underestimating" the value of unpaid work around the home when considering levels of protection cover, Legal and General has reported.

Zurich paid out nearly £14m in income protection claims, to 765 customers, in 2012.

Wiltshire Friendly paid out 99.20% of all submitted income protection claims in 2012, the mutual's highest reported level over the past 4 years.

Adviser firms offering non-advised protection sales is not good for consumers, according to the majority of advisers, life offices and reinsurers.

As someone who feels passionate about women having financial protection and owns a practice that specialises in advising women, I wrote a lot of protection business before G-Day.

Income replacement is the most important protection product available, Defaqto has said in light of today's Office for National Statistics unemployment data.

The number of UK unemployed benefit claimants has fallen to its lowest in a year and a half, the Bank of Scotland has reported.