Income Protection

Holloway Friendly's Short Term and Purely Income Protection policies will be available on The Right Mortgage Network from mid-June 2017.

Inga Beale, chief executive officer of Lloyd's London has said that despite controlling "70-80% of consumer spending globally", "over a third of women in their late 30s would not be able to survive for 'one month if they lost their regular source of income'....

Advisers who take out IP with LV= between now and 31st August 2017 will get a discount of around 10% depending on their situation for the entire length of the policy.

As part of COVER's 20th Anniversary series, Fiona Murphy talks to Legal & General's Mark Holweger about income protection.

LV= is adding Doctor Services to all personal protection products for new customers at no added cost, in partnership with Square Health.

Royal London paid 97.3% of claims totalling over £331m during 2016, according to the insurer's published claims statistics.

Income protection provider Wiltshire Friendly has now launched Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin for its members.

Karin Lloyd, claims expert and one of the architects of Seven Families, has appeared as a backing singer on a charity single to raise funds for SANE.

Swiss Re's Term and Health Watch 2017 has shown growth across all individual protection products, with income protection showing the highest levels of growth at 9.8%.

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has changed its methodology for publishing protection claims stats with income protection claims payments experiencing a decrease compared to the previous way of reporting claims paid.