Individual Protection

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.'

Malignant melanoma, a type of skin cancer, has increased by 78% among males and 48% among females from 2003 to 2012, official figures have shown.

Zurich is extending the age limit of its investment-linked protection product, Investment Life Cover, for customers up to their 70th birthday.

Health & Case Management Ltd (HCML) has re-launched its catastrophic injury case management service.

The SimplyBiz Group is launching ‘protection awareness week' to help advisers better educate clients about protection products and opportunities.

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

At least 4,500 cancer patients (29%) have waited six months or more to find out whether they will even be awarded their disability benefit Personal Independence Payment (PIP) after claiming, according to estimates by Macmillan Cancer Support.

Thousands more families will be required to pay inheritance tax (IHT) this year as an improving economy and rising house prices pull them above the threshold, according to figures.

PruProtect is to add Vitality, the insurer's healthy living rewards programme onto its Relevant Life policy.

Individual critical illness saw a relentless pace of change last year. But has the industry gone far enough? Fiona Murphy investigates.