Individual Protection

Approximately 137.3 million working days were lost to sickness or injury in the UK in 2016, the lowest number of working days lost since the series began in 1993, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Allianz Global Corporate & Speciality SE and Allianz Worldwide Care have partnered to launch a suite of compliant international healthcare insurance solution for Singapore.

Generali Employee Benefits UK has added to its group income protection (IP) policies.

Synaptic Software has reported a significant increase in protection requests from advisers on its Webline quote portal during January and February compared to the same period last year.

Scottish Widows has launched its Scottish Widows Protect policies on LifeQuote.

The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) has scrapped housing benefit for young adults aged 18-21 in proposals put forward in parliament on Friday 3rd March.

Roy McLoughlin is leaving Master Adviser to join Cavendish Ware Wealth Management as an adviser, COVER can exclusively reveal.

The government's Dormant Assets Commission is now identifying further sources of unclaimed policies and assets from financial firms that could be donated to the charity sector.

The treatment of income protection in the new Universal Credit (UC) system will create an obstacle to take-up and needs revision, The New Policy Institute has warned.

SAMI Consulting has called for a greater government focus on rehab, good communication and the protection needs of the self-employed in its Green Paper wishlist.