Individual Protection

A national independent protection training academy has been formed by the Protection Review and Personal Finance Society (PFS).

PruProtect is taking another step on the critical illness (CI) conditions war by adding eight new definitions to its product.

Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) claimants will be limited to one year of benefit payments for those expected to prepare to return to work, the Chancellor George Osborne has announced.

Legal & General has enhanced its business protection proposition in a bid for share of the business protection gap.

Bupa is to sell its UK protection and risk business, Bupa Health Assurance Ltd (BHA), to Resolution for approximately £165.15m.

AEGON's decision to remain in individual protection markets was due to "significant overlap" with its chosen core markets, the provider has said.

Holloway Friendly Society has reduced broker liability through the introduction of tele medical underwriting on its Income Protection policies.

Andrew Clothier reminds that many with mortgage payment protection products are over insured or not insured at all.

UK protection markets may be advanced, but they do not lead in terms of customer innovations, that could be the South Africans. Andy Milburn explains

Alice suffered from anorexia in her teens and early 20s. She now has a partner with whom she shares a joint mortgage but also has some underlying mild depression.