Individual Protection

LV= has seen a slight decrease in its protection business over the last year but says sales have been 'resilient' amid ‘adverse market conditions'.

Intrinsic Financial Services has announced that all 3,000 advisers across the Group will have the option to use LifeQuote from 3rd February 2014.

Exeter Family Friendly has introduced a new suite of material for its marketing toolkit, the Protection Path.

Protection specialist LifeSearch has announced the short list for its annual protection awards, with LV=, PruProtect and Aviva the front runners.

Insurer Zurich paid out on 94% of its critical illness policy claims last year, up from 90% in 2012, latest statistics show.  

Aviva has released previously unseen figures from its critical illness (CI), income protection (IP) and private medical insurance (PMI) claims statistics.

Almost a million people who applied for sickness benefit have instead been found fit for work, according to the latest government figures.

One in ten advisers believe the raft of changes to income protection (IP) and critical illness (CI) policies last year represent ‘window dressing' instead of real change, according to a poll.

With the right treatment, over 65s can survive for many years after cancer - yet UK survival rates in older people are among worst in Europe as many are 'written off', new research has found.

The cost of bringing up a child has reached £227,266 with the first year of a child's life seeing the largest increase, LV= said.