Income Protection specialist, dg Mutual, has paid out 99% of claims for the third year running, with over 50% of claims paid out within one week.
LV= has improved its claims paid figures for both critical illness (CI) and income protection (IP) during last year.
LifeSearch has revealed it arranged £4bn worth of cover and saw a 10% increase in the number of under 35-year-olds who took out protection products last year.
Pharmaceutical & General Provident Society has revealed it paid 98% of its income protection claims last year.
Wiltshire Friendly Society has announced high claims payments on income protection, with 97.6% of all claims paid.
What Insure has launched an income protection (IP) product including cover in the event of someone becoming a carer.
Cirencester friendly paid 94% of its valid income protection (IP) claims totalling £2.7m in 2010 and reiterated its call for other providers follow suit.
A third of incapacity benefit (IB) recipients being reassessed for Employment and Support Allowance are being found too sick to work at all, according to government statistics.
Protection and medical insurance complaints are on course for a significant drop in volume during 2010/11, according to the latest statistics released by the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS).
Cancer sufferers awaiting chemotherapy and those between courses will now be treated the same as patients already receiving treatment when claiming Employment and Support Allowance (ESA).