Income Protection

Unum has urged advisers to join it in targeting the ‘underserved' SME market to grow their income protection (IP) business.

Unum is to leave the individual protection market from 2 March.

COVER is proud to announce that Aviva, LV=, PruHealth, PruProtect and Simplyhealth are sponsoring its new website.

COVER has launched a campaign, initially in partnership with the Protection Review, to reform the practice of writing list-based occupational definitions (Activities of Daily Living and Working - ADL and ADW) for income protection.

The government could force people judged too sick or disabled to be employed to do unlimited unpaid work or risk losing their benefits.

Young adults are just as aware of the need to protect their income and health as their elder peers, but fall behind when it comes to life insurance and critical illness (CI).

LV= has announced it paid 91% of income protection (IP) and 88% of critical illness (CI) claims in 2011.

My 45-year-old client was made redundant due to the recession, but has recently started a new yet much lower-paid job. With his income protection (IP) policy covering his last wage level, he is now over-insured and would not be able to claim his full...

The Protection Review and Income Protection Task Force (IPTF) have produced a list of the top ten things consumers should be aware of when purchasing income protection (IP).

Holloway Friendly Society paid 96.2% of its income protection claims in 2011, up from the previous twelve months 95.5%.