Income Protection

Royal London's Shelley Walker reflects on Christmas spending and how your clients would be coping at this time if they didn't have regular earnings.

Mark Myers, British Friendly's outgoing CEO, has joined Direct Life as a non-exec director.

Cirencester Friendly has paid 94.7% of claims in 2016, an increase on last year's figure of 94%.

For some, 2016 was a year to forget, and among the things that marked it out was the high number of celebrity deaths, writes Steve Berry.

Holloway Friendly has made several new hires including Andy Milburn as the director of proposition and marketing.

Best Insurance has launched InstaProtect - a short-term Accident, Sickness and Unemployment (ASU) policy with no exclusion periods and simplified medical underwriting terms.

British Friendly is once again the first insurer to publish their claims statistics for the whole of the previous year.

F&TRC has announced its product ratings for income protection, business protection and relevant life.

Women have "less financial resilience to bounce back from financial shocks and are more likely to be trapped in poverty in later life", according to an interim report from Insuring Women's Futures (IWF.)

Melissa Collett discusses the lessons that income protection insurers can learn from 'I, Daniel Blake's' narrative of the state benefits system and how to treat customers at point of claim.