Individual Protection

Exeter Family Friendly is to launch an adviser marketing toolkit aimed at increasing sales of income protection.

A think tank is recommending mandatory protection insurance for personal and small business loans, a proposal CUNA Mutual is taking up.

The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) has announced a further consultation on the mobility component of the new disability benefit, Personal Independence Payment (PIP.)

Aviva is to introduce a new clause to its income protection (IP) policies specifically to help NHS doctors and surgeons.

Do cancer screening advances save lives or diagnose more sickness and what would this mean for the Critical Illness (CI) market, Gen Re has asked.

LV= is launching a simplified income protection product, ‘Sick Pay Insurance'.

Lloyds Banking Group has admitted to failings in its handling of payment protection insurance (PPI) complaints, following an undercover investigation.

PruProtect and Ageas, have launched a business protection proposition for First Complete advisers' business clients.

Men in their 30s have increased the amount they insure themselves by a fifth (20%) in the past year, according to new figures from Scottish Provident.

Protection markets are ripe for change. Paul Robertson interviews Iain Clark of LV= and suspects the company intends to be at the forefront.