Income Protection

Gen Re shares the results of its Protection Pulse for the half year 2015, revealing a freefall in restricted advice sales but a pick-up in income protection (IP.)

Bright Grey has now rebranded to Royal London as the mutual confirmed it would move to a single protection business bringing together ‘the best elements of the Bright Grey and Scottish Provident brands' by the end of the year.

British Friendly has launched a Quote & Apply system for advisers applying for income protection policies for their clients.

Seven Families, the charity-led campaign with Disability Rights UK, has ‘considerably helped to raise awareness of income protection' (IP) amongst advisers, according to an adviser poll.

Since the arrival of auto-enrolment, the business case for linking protection and pensions has become ever more compelling, writes Jason Green.

Paul Avis says its time to rethink the state benefit link on group income protection policies.

Insurer Aviva has made savings of £91m from its acquisition of rival provider Friends Life and said the merger was "everything we expected it to be", in its third quarter results.

The Seven Families campaign is preparing for its #ForAllTheCarers action day with support from firms in the protection industry.

Intermediary London and Country Mortgages (L&C) will be integrating the UnderwriteMe comparison service into its sales teams.

Seven Families will hold a social media based action day on 29 October 2015, to raise awareness of the financial impact of long term ill health.