Individual Protection

There was an increase of 2,700 in the number of deaths from less common cancers between 2010 and 2013, a report from Public Health England (PHE) and Cancer 52 has found.

Network Openwork has teamed up with CIExpert to promote the use of its knowledgebase to help members boost their protection business.

The four most common cancers, breast, prostate, colorectal and lung, are affecting 80,000 people diagnosed before they turn 45, research has revealed.

Old Mutual Wealth has confirmed its head of protection Ian Jefferies is to leave the insurer.

Company sick pay is not available to 34% of working Britons, amounting to 11m people, research by LV= has revealed.

My Earnings Insurance, the pure income protection product provided by Cirencester Friendly Society, has been added to mortgage network First Complete's panel.

The gap between people's needs if they became critically ill or disabled and what they would have is €750bn across 13 European & Middle Eastern countries, a report from Swiss Re has found.

The average life insurance payout in the UK is £51,500 which would only cover 62% of the average outstanding mortgage (£83,000), according to research from Sunlife.

Private medical insurance (PMI) is the top health & protection product consumers in Western Europe would consider buying followed by critical illness (CI) cover, a survey has found.

Friends Life has placed its Fracture Cover addition for its life, critical illness and income protection products on LifeQuote's portal.