Individual Protection

True Potential has agreed a partnership with insurance giant Aviva to allow quotes and online applications for a wider range of the provider's products, including protection plans.

The UK's largest ICOBS adviser has applauded the FSA's plan requiring advisers to review protection sales methods.

The FSA has ordered firms selling pure protection and PPI plans to review their sales policies and compliance procedures after finding "disappointing" oral disclosure practices by some firms.

Axa has amended its critical illness product and unveiled a client support service for all products within its protection account.

Support for an unbiased protection training academy is growing following the announcement that 17 industrywide companies have signed up to the first phase of the initiative.

The ABI has announced that it will not be re-naming Total and Permanent Disability (TPD) cover for critical illness contracts in its next Statement of Best Practice to be released next year.

The protection industry has generally welcomed the ABI's decision not to re-name Total and Permanent Disability (TPD) on critical illness insurance and the agreement on industrywide standards.

The ABI has scrapped proposals to change the name of Total and Permanent Disability (TPD) cover on critical illness (CI) plans.

Insurers LV=, Zurich, Friends Provident and Fortis are among this year's Gold Standard Award winners.

Six in ten Britons do not have any protection in place and a third would be forced to drastically cut back on living costs should they or the main breadwinner be unable to work, according to new research.