Individual Protection

LV= has reported protection sales of £96 million in the insurer's interim results for the six months ending 30 June 2014.

PruProtect has announced a discount on all its Vitality Optimiser products for new customers, for the life of the policy.

Zurich has increased the maximum term for its critical illness cover from 30 to 40 years, in a bid to protect customers with longer mortgages and to reflect changing retirement patterns.

Some 64% of people who have moved up the property ladder in the past five years and have a bigger mortgage as a result, did not review their life insurance; research finds.

Demand for Mortgage Payment Protection Insurance is still dwindling, but a new philosophy on debt waiver products could rejuvenate the market. Fiona Murphy reports.

The rate of children dying from cancer has dropped by 22% in the last decade, according to new figures.

Only a quarter (24%) of adults in the UK with children under 16 have any form of financial protection, according to research.

The NHS has announced that reforms to the Cancer Drugs Fund are underway with extra funding and a re-evaulation of the way drugs are approved for funding.

Confused.com has become the first comparison site to use Quote+ technology to aid customers in buying their life insurance, with a typical application less than two minutes.

Are older CI plans better or worse than modern ones? The answer can be surprisingly complex. Alan Lakey explains.