Individual Protection

The SimplyBiz Group is launching ‘protection awareness week' to help advisers better educate clients about protection products and opportunities.

The Income Protection Task Force has confirmed the Seven Families campaign has reached the required level of funding to proceed.

At least 4,500 cancer patients (29%) have waited six months or more to find out whether they will even be awarded their disability benefit Personal Independence Payment (PIP) after claiming, according to estimates by Macmillan Cancer Support.

Thousands more families will be required to pay inheritance tax (IHT) this year as an improving economy and rising house prices pull them above the threshold, according to figures.

PruProtect is to add Vitality, the insurer's healthy living rewards programme onto its Relevant Life policy.

Individual critical illness saw a relentless pace of change last year. But has the industry gone far enough? Fiona Murphy investigates.

APRIL UK has launched a Personal Accident Plan, aimed at protecting those with active lifestyles from fractures and serious injuries.

UK consumers would switch to buying their life insurance on the internet if providers were able to offer professional online advice, a survey conducted for PwC has found.

Troubled workplace capability assessment (WCA) supplier Atos Healthcare has warned MPs it did not think its successor would fare any better unless there were real changes.

Employers with policies insured with income protection specialist Unum will now have access to Mental Health First Aid courses for their staff.