Individual Protection

The Work and Pensions Select Committee has today announced the first oral evidence session for its inquiry into Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and Work Capability Assessments (WCA).

PruProtect has launched a business protection risk calculator as it believes this insurance is becoming a 'core area' for advisers.

Exeter Family Friendly has launched a level premium option on its Income One income protection (IP) plan.

Income protection provider British Friendly has launched a new online application process for financial advisers.

LV= is launching a new YouTube campaign ‘Near Misses' highlighting the provider's Sick Pay Insurance.

Ageas Protect paid out 89.3% of critical illness (CI) and children's CI protection claims in 2013 - the first time the protection provider has published its claims performance since it entered the market in 2008.

Unemployed people looking for work were almost twice as likely as those in employment to have a limiting long-standing illness or disability, the latest figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) has revealed.

Royal London's operating profits for 2013 were up to £346m, with new business accounting for £70m of the gains.

LV= has revealed a 9% fall in its protection business in its results for the year to 31 December 2013.

Paradigm Protect, the newly launched protection proposition for advisory firms, has announced it is to use social media for a debate on the protection marketplace.