Individual Protection

Aviva has added the first partial payments to its critical illness (CI) policy and halved the length of time for a Multiple Sclerosis (MS) claim.

I write with regret that the income protection (IP) quality standard (QS) has been abandoned.

Last night COVER recognised the best work of those in the health insurance and protection world.

Louise Colley from Aviva picked up the Outstanding Achievement Award at last night's COVER Excellence Awards.

Legal & General has warned that advisers could be vulnerable to complaints action is they fail to ensure that business protection clients have completed the correct legal paperwork.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is reportedly pushing for GPs to be required to encourage patients with long term medical conditions to go back to work.

A specialist insurance provider has been disciplined by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) for an advert branded "provocative" and "degrading".

Aviva has bowed to public pressure and toned down its Downtown Abbey motorcycle crash victim ads.

LV= has signified its intent to become the cheapest income protection (IP) provider by reducing prices for the next three months.

Defaqto and other ratings agencies have been attacked for "driving the wrong behaviour" by encouraging product complexity and being "in danger of misleading consumers".