Individual Protection

There has been a second fall in the numbers of long term sick people between November 2014 and January 2015, the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) have revealed.

Legal & General's Richard Kateley urges advisers to first consider their own business protection needs as a starting point before offering plans to clients.

Leaked documents from the upcoming 2015 Budget have shown that the threshold for inheritance tax (IHT) is set to rise for the first time since 2009.

CIExpert has described Friends Life's changes to its critical illness (CI) product as offering 'a number of significant improvements'.

Legal & General (L&G) has launched an online trust hub to simplify the process of setting up a trust for protection policy holders.

Unum is not backing industry discussions around auto-enrolment(AE) for group risk and is instead calling on the government to introduce a temporary tax relief for SMEs with group income protection (GIP) plans.

Engage mutual is asking advisers and brokers to give feedback on their offering as they merge with Family Investments.

Friends Life has launched ‘Global Treatment' with Best Doctors as an add-on to its protection policies offering policyholders the option of going abroad for serious illness treatment.

Teresa Fritz is to join the executive committee of the Income Protection Task Force from 1 April 2015.

The Financial Inclusion Commission (FIC) has called for a minister for financial health to lead on financial inclusion and capability.