Income Protection

Zurich has revealed it paid 100% of income protection claims during January and June 2014.

Cirencester Friendly has launched a new Income Protection contract "My Earnings Insurance" ("MEI").

Income protection provider Exeter Family Friendly has increased the medical underwriting limits for its plan for low risk workers.

Aviva paid out £12.9 million to individual income protection customers in 2013.

Six million homes, half of all mortgaged residential property in the UK, could be at risk because the owners are not covered by any form of protection insurance; according to research.

Sun Life Direct is to rebrand as Sun Life, with ambitions to become the UK's leading direct-to-consumer financial services brand.

GPs could be given incentives to encourage them to refer employees to the Health and Work Service (HWS), but may lose the responsibility of issuing fit notes.

Friends Life has announced new enhancements to its income protection proposition, with the main enhancement an increase in the maximum income percentage a customer can cover.

The government's implementation of Personal Independence Payments (PIP), which replaced Disability Living Allowance, has been criticised by MPs as ‘nothing short of a fiasco.'

The Income Protection Task Force has confirmed the Seven Families campaign has reached the required level of funding to proceed.