Income Protection

Roger Edwards shares some lessons from the Protection Review conference 2016 on how the industry should consider communicating in the style of Peppa Pig or Game of Thrones and tap into positive stories.

Providers of income protection should allow additional cover for pension contributions, similar to the group income protection and executive income protection, adviser firm Drewberry has urged.

The Exeter is offering two months of free income protection to new clients as part of a limited special offer.

Only one in five 5 UK respondents to a global survey have income protection cover in the event of becoming too ill or disabled to work, according to research from Zurich.

Mark Graves, sales director of Sesame Bankhall Group (SBG) has urged mortgage brokers and financial advisers to discuss protection with every customer saying ‘you don't get to choose which customers are getting the value of your knowledge.'

LV= has promoted Myles Rix, managing director of its protection business and John Perks, managing director of its Retirement Solutions business, to its Group executive team.

Legal & General has launched a two year limited benefit income protection policy product to meet the growth of the low cost market.

Financial advisers Future Proof discusses the results of its 2016 research into the protection market.

Half of consumers polled 'want more' from critical illness policies compared to other protection policies according to research from VitalityLife and The Syndicate.

A woman from Luton has been sentenced after she made fraudulent claims on her employer's income protection insurance policy held with Unum, claiming she was unable to work when in fact she was working as a call centre operative elsewhere.