Individual Protection
Industry reaction: Guardian CIC and terminal illness
"The tides have changed for protection"
Paradigm Protect adds Canada Life Individual Protection
Life insurance and life insurance plus critical illness cover now available through directly authorised protection proposition
Justin Harper: The mental strain of financial health
LV='s Justin Harper waxes lyrical about the virtues of income protection as a financial safety net for those facing mental health problems
CIExpert on Guardian's critical illness conditions
Simplifications for heart attack, stroke and cancer (and more) with exclusions removed
Guardian: 'Simpler, broader definitions' for CIC and terminal illness
Gryphon Group Holdings targets protection disruption by removing exclusions for critical Illness and terminal illness
The Exeter offers IP cover for type 2 diabetes
Changes to income protection underwriting compliments Managed Life offering
Mental Health Awareness Week: How far have we come?
COVER editor Adam Saville explores what progress the life, protection and PMI industry has made with regards to supporting mental health
The great IP vs mental health impasse
With Mental Health Awareness Week upon us, Suzanne Clarkson explores what the individual IP market can learn from their group counterparts when it comes to supporting people with mental health issues...
Two thirds of overall claims paid out for life in 2017
CIC represents 23% of all claims and income protection accounts for 12%, according to figures from ABI and GRiD
Ex-COVER editor takes Headline Money Award
Fiona Murphy wins Financial Health and Life Insurance Journalist of the Year (B2B) for 2018
Holloway Friendly launches income protection plan discounts
10% or 20% premium discounts to Short Term Income Protection and Purely Income Protection Plans where there are exclusions
Quarter of mums suspected of undiagnosed post-natal depression
48% of women aged 25-45 solely responsible for house finances and 57% of this age group do not have any cover
AIG to offer British Seniors over 50s life
AIG Life will be sole provider of British Seniors life insurance as part of three-year partnership
Steve Casey: Different Strokes?
Square Health's Steve Casey is living proof that CIC can be a vital lifeline for anyone who suffers a stroke. However, as he found out first hand, the experience of making a claim may differ from one provider to the next. Here's his story...
97.8% of all group and individual claims paid in 2017
'Record-breaking' £5bn in total pay-outs for protection industry last year and £1.6bn paid out for group risk, according to ABI and GRiD
VitalityLife updates Serious Illness Cover
Cancer Relapse Benefit included as standard and 35 definitions added including borderline ovarian cancer and blindness in one eye
Mortgage protection sales rising amid 2.3% drop in lending
Protection must "widen its proposition to meet needs of renters", says Swiss Re's Ron Wheatcroft
Mutuals pay 93.7% of income protection claims in 2017
Data from nine members of AFM indicates "higher than the industry average" stats from mutual insurers
Openwork adds The Exeter's impaired life cover to panel
Advisers can now offer life cover to those previously declined
CIExpert on L&G's Critical Illness Extra update
Consolidation of "market-leading" position with better quality of choice and by mirroring Aviva's two-pronged approach to children's cover
Johnny Timpson: For better or worse, richer or poorer
Johnny Timpson holds forth on bereavement benefits, cohabiting inequalities and the upcoming Supreme Court case in Belfast
L&G launches critical illness upgrade
Critical Illness Extra (CIx) supports a total of 95 conditions and includes children's cover as well as virtual GP service plus RedArc nurses
IRESS data shows 20.5% protection sales increase
The Exchange indicates 'record-breaking quarter' for critical illness, life, income protection and multi benefit products for first three months of 2018
Aviva pays 97.2% protection claims in 2017
£900m goes to protection customers
