Income Protection

Friends Life has raised £140,000 for the Lister Macmillan Cancer Centre which will go towards initiatives including a welfare benefits advice service.

Canada Life Group Insurance has expanded its Group Income Protection (GIP) Early Intervention Service (EIS) to cover over 320,000 additional employees.

One in ten advisers believe the raft of changes to income protection (IP) and critical illness (CI) policies last year represent ‘window dressing' instead of real change, according to a poll.

Legal & General has launched an online calculator that provides instant quotations for businesses looking to provide group life and group income protection policies for their employees.

British Money has launched Universal Cover which pays mortgage borrowers who lose their jobs or who are prevented from working due to an accident, sickness or caring commitments for up to a year.

Almost seven in ten (69%) employees say that flexible working is critical in easing work-related stress, according to a survey.

Marco Ferato, chief marketing officer at Unum, discusses the employee benefits market moving away from a reliance on life cover and towards addressing the risk of sickness absence.

Lifesearch is raising awareness of the perception gap between the number of protection claims people believe are paid; compared to the actual number of claims that are paid out.

PruProtect has published its first set of paid claim statistics since it came to the UK market in 2007.

LV= has announced it is offering a 5% discount on premium rates for a number of its protection products.