Individual Protection

LV= has warned that the highest number of house-buyers in seven years means that many people will be depleting their savings and may be in need of income protection.

The SimplyBiz Group is running a series of protection-focussed events across the UK throughout March.

F&TRC has added a range of business protection products to its Quality Analyser adviser research tool including Relevant Life.

Bright Grey is to extend its Helping Hand service to include a second medical opinion which will be available face-to-face within the UK.

A police officer who was paralysed in a motorbike accident at the beginning of a holiday has been announced as the next beneficiary of the Seven Families campaign.

British Friendly paid 96% of the 5000 income protection claims received over the past five years, newly released figures have revealed.

Exeter Family Friendly has added three benefits to its income protection plans - a GP helpline, private prescription service and automatic medical evidence limits.

Consumers believe their savings would be more useful to them if they were off work for more than six months than income protection, research has found.

An estimated 2.6 million people aged 50 plus are living with a serious illness in England with 3.1m over-50s living in serious ill health across the UK as a whole, research has found.

A quarter (25%) of the UK workforce have taken out pet insurance yet only 7% are protecting their income with self-employed people being particularly vulnerable to financial risks, research has found.