Income Protection

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.

Has the income protection (IP) industry reached tipping point? The validity of list-based occupational definitions for IP, such as work tasks and activities of daily living, has been questioned for many years. But the demand for change is becoming stronger....

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.

The government could force people judged too sick or disabled to be employed to do unlimited unpaid work or risk losing their benefits.

LV= has big plans for 2012. Paul Robertson interviews one of the industry's most prominent Welshmen, Mark Jones.

Young adults are just as aware of the need to protect their income and health as their elder peers, but fall behind when it comes to life insurance and critical illness (CI).

LV= has announced it paid 91% of income protection (IP) and 88% of critical illness (CI) claims in 2011.