Individual Protection

LV= will switch its protection business to gender neutral rates on 1 December and has announced its pipeline strategy for advisers.

A package of identity theft protection tools has been launched by Equifax for adviser clients.

Unum has launched a website to help advisers communicate the benefits of income protection to clients.

Welcome to the Autumn issue of Healthy, Wealthy & Wise. The special supplement can be a helpful aid for advisers in trying to build client understanding of protection. This issue is very focused on income protection and workplace benefits.

PruProtect has enhanced its income protection cover for NHS doctors.

The basic cost of a funeral has risen, up 6.2% from £3,091 in 2011 to £3,284; contributing to a 71% increase from 2004.

A UK-based reward and benefits provider will now offer Allianz Global Assistance's Family Homecare plan products.

Women who work are not recognising the importance of protection and need to seek advice, Scottish Provident has warned.

Barclays Bank has overtaken Lloyd's TSB as the source of the most payment protection insurance (PPI) complaints, according to figures from the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS).

PPI complaints have doubled in the first half of this year with up to 1,500 new cases each day, according to latest Financial Ombudsman Service complaints statistics.