Aviva

Aviva is to introduce a new clause to its income protection (IP) policies specifically to help NHS doctors and surgeons.

Group CI has seen steady growth in the past year or so, but why? Nicola Culley investigates and assesses whether the increase is sustainable.

Hundreds of UK jobs at Aviva are set to be axed as part of its global cost-cutting programme, it has been reported.

If you are a regulator or legislator in the UK or Europe, you will be passing more laws and creating more rules around the marketing, sale and purchase of insurance products including protection.

Over two in five advisers (41%) do not use any social media networks at all, according to Aviva research.

Aviva has moved to cloud-based systems in a bid to improve the group's finance, sales and operations.

Aviva has announced a three-year deal with the Lighthouse Group to provide life protection products through its national adviser division, Lighthouse Financial Advice (LFA).

Adviser opportunities in the development of flex benefits systems for smaller employees are set to further encourage growing group critical illness (group CI) sales, Aviva has said.

New business at insurance giant Aviva was up 18% in the three months to 31 March, reaching £191m, according to its latest results.

Price wars between providers are "as full on as ever", CIExpert has stated following reports that some critical illness (CI) premiums are lower than pre-G-Day rates.