Income Protection

The long-term protection market has remained resilient through 2011 despite significant increase in the UK protection gap, Swiss Re has reported.

Advisers have been struggling to sell income protection because clients claim not to need it, Defaqto research has shown.

The renting rise will fit "quite nicely" with the emergence of market-newby short-term income protection, Defaqto has said.

Short-term income protection is only part of the answer to the protection gap, the ABI has said.

The gender-neutral pricing saga could just be unnecessary drama, according to Exeter Family Friendly.

The Income Protection Task Force has completed a draft Charter setting out the obligations and opportunities of companies selling Income Protection.

Friends Life has increased the commission advisers receive on its income protection policies by approximately 15% in a bid to bring it into line with commission received on critical illness and life products.

A charter for income protection (IP) setting out the obligations and opportunities of companies selling Income Protection was one of the key things considered a recent IP Summit in London.

Aviva's income protection cover provided payments totalling more than £29.5m in 2011, helping around 2,600 customers and paying out on over 91% of income protection claims in 2011.

Cirencester friendly is replacing its legacy IT systems.