Individual Protection

4.3 million women are the main breadwinners in their households, earning substantially more than their male partners, yet few have any protection policies in place, LV= has said.

Aegon UK has announced improvements to the underwriting requirements for both personal and business protection.

CIExpert has analysed Beagle Street's recent upgrade to its Critical Illness (CI) plan and highlighted improved wordings of eleven conditions.

FirstAssist Insurance Services has launched two new insurance products, Surgery Cash Plan and Simple Critical Illness.

Friends Life will offer customers the option to benefit from free Fracture Cover on new Critical Illness and Critical Illness with Life Cover Protect+ policies.

The protection market must "embrace change" and be open to technological advances or risk dying out, delegates at The Protection Review conference heard.

Insurers must develop simple processes to engage advisers and the mass market, delegates at The Protection Review conference heard.

Life insurance take-up has increased among single-parent families over the past year, according to research.

CIExpert has analysed recent changes to Aviva's critical illness (CI) plan and said it has highlighted how complex policies are becoming.

The number of short-term income protection (STIP) policies has increased by 120% since 2009, 'outstripping' long-term income protection (IP) sales, research has found.