Income Protection

The UK is a 'nation of stressed staff' - with people eating lunch at their desks, working overtime and through holidays and sickness, according to new research.

Andrew Tripp, a former chairman of AMII, has launched new PMI and protection provider ESMI, which he claims will ‘revolutionise' health insurance.

LV has reported a fall in its protection sales of 9%, according to its interim results for the half year to 30 June 2013.

Women still have less critical illness (CI) cover than men yet new Mums are storming ahead in income protection (IP) and life insurance sales, according to two separate pieces of research released today.

Life insurance take-up has increased among single-parent families over the past year, according to research.

Protection insurance sales have hit a nine-month high due to increased mortgage lending, according to LifeQuote.

Insurers have applauded news the ABI is to refine definitions insurers use to report claims pay-out rates to ensure greater consistency across the industry.

So, income protection has been left out in the simple product cold. John Bridge assesses whether it will ever join the gang.

Group protection is under significant price pressure. Paul Avis explains why and offers a few suggestions to support clients who may be shocked by the cost.

More than half of employers would be encouraged to offer group benefits if the government offered tax incentives, a survey has reported.