Individual Protection

The Right Mortgage and Protection Network has endorsed the use of critical illness (CI) data site CIExpert for all its advisers.

Since 2009, 38,600 stroke patients have reached hospital within 3 hours of symptoms appearing, improving their recovery chances, Public Health England (PHE) has revealed.

Cirencester Friendly paid £3.3m in sick pay benefit for its income protection customers in 2014, with 94% of eligible claims paid.

UK mortgage holders are still putting their financial wellbeing at risk by not having adequate cover in place to protect them if they were too ill to work for more than three months.

Zurich has launched a flexible group income protection proposition aimed at employers with at least 250 employees.

Munich Re's Mike Bolshaw discusses the issues around suicide exclusions built into life insurance policies.

Aviva is now offering £15,000 of free life cover for parents through all channels, including advisers.

Zurich has announced that it paid over 91% of its critical illness claims in 2014 to 750 customers with payments amounting to over £63.1 million.

The government should make sickness absence policies ‘more flexible' to allow employees with fluctuating health conditions to pre-emptively arrange part-time sick leave, a report has urged.

Protection and life cover software firm Ipipeline has teamed up with Openwork to offer advisers a way of producing multiple quotes for protection products which it claims will help them boost their protection sales.