Individual Protection

Friends Life has reconfirmed its place at the top of the quality tree with a number of innovations CIExpart has concluded.

Exeter Family Friendly has launched an app enabling advisers to quote its range of income protection (IP) products on the go.

More than half of companies (55%) would fail if they lost one or more key people to illness, incapacity or death, yet just one in five companies have protection, according to Scottish Widows.

Bright Grey has made changes to its critical illness cover across both business and personal menu plans, by adding three new additional conditions relating to the early detection of cancer.

Friends Life has made coverage changes to its Protect+ Critical Illness Cover (CIC) offering based on the product's claims history.

PruProtect Serious Illness Cover (SIC) will now cover all heart attacks, strokes, insulin dependent type 1 diabetes for adults, and an extended age for children covered.

PruProtect has launched ‘Vitality Optimiser' on its PruProtect and Essentials Plan, offering new clients an upfront discount on protection premiums in a bid to reduce pricing ‘inequality'.

New exhibition the Financial Services Expo has added protection and specialist lending-focused seminars to its two-day event.

Friends Life is raising awareness on how consumers not knowing their blood pressure levels can affect protection insurance to coincide with a charity's campaign.

Aviva has released previously unpublished details of its critical illness (CI) claims relating to heart conditions ahead of World Heart Day.