Individual Protection

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.

HIV Positive people taking out HIV Life Assurance are insuring themselves for an average of £134,667, according to IFAs Unusual Risks.

Unum is optimistic the Money Advice Service (MAS) will still be a strong contender to distribute the recent steering group-proposed simple products, despite recent troubles.

Insurer growth will not be about products but rather distribution individuality, RGA said at its conference yesterday.

The widening critical illness protection gap will only get worse but there will be no easy answer, reinsurer RGA has said.