Individual Protection

The ABI has railed against government plans to scrap life assurance tax relief which could hit as many as 1.5 million policyholders.

Britons aged between 25 and 35 are showing significant awareness and take-up of protection and health insurance products, according to new research.

Aviva has overhauled its approach to large case underwriting, to make the process quicker and easier.

The Finance & Technology Research Centre (F&TRC) Protection Forum is to report on the benchmarking of provider's protection retention systems in December.

Families are focusing on protection, even as they cut back on non-essentials, Aviva has found.

IFAs have claimed providers of individual protection products consistently fail to meet their expectations in dealing with existing business, Defaqto said.

Aviva and Legal & General are to provide life and general insurance products for Barclays Bank UK Retail customers.

Aviva has seen a slight uplift in its protection sales over the third quarter as it continues its attempt to dominate the market.

Half of co-habitating Britons do not have any life insurance and many could not afford a funeral if their partner or spouse died, new research has found.

Legal & General has credited diversification into non mortgage related business for strong individual protection results that boosted its third quarter performance.

Ageas Protect has introduced a consumer friendly ‘product labelling' scheme into its protection products.

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

Lead Co-op has launched life assurance leads allowing advisers to alter prices according to the source of the lead in order to reward and encourage quality leads.