Individual Protection

In ‘an increasing trend towards severity-based critical illness cover' nearly 60% of critical illness policies now offer severity-based cover.

Ageas Protect has added family bereavement support to a range of its protection policies.

Clive Waller, co-chairman of the Income Protection Task Force (IPTF), has announced he is stepping down from his role at the end of this year.

Annual research into the insurance needs of gay men and women, by gay protection specialist IFA Compass, has for the first time focused on critical illness (CI) cover, instead of life insurance.

PruProtect has launched a promotion offering children's serious illness cover (SIC) free for three years to new customers.

CIExpert has analysed Zurich's recent upgrade to its critical illness plans and highlighted its early stage cancer coverage.

Zurich has enhanced its Critical Illness (CI) product including improved protection for patients with breast cancer and partial payments on 6 medical conditions.

eValue has launched Protection Planner to allow advisers to illustrate how a client's sudden death would financially effect their dependents.

The majority of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) have no key worker protection in place, despite death of a business owner emerging as the most disruptive potential scenario a business can face.

Exeter Family Friendly is to launch an adviser marketing toolkit aimed at increasing sales of income protection.