Individual Protection

Engage Mutual has announced that its Board has made a formal recommendation to merge with Family Investments to form one of the UK's largest mutual insurers with over 2 million customers.

SunLife has launched a Family Life Insurance product, promising simplicity and an intermediary product to follow.

The mortgage industry needs to ensure clients are protected with sufficient cover, The Premier Choice group protection seminar has warned.

The NHS' cancer services are in need of further funding to cope with a 50% increase in demand, according to a report from Cancer Research UK.

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.