Income Protection

Cirencester Friendly's Paul Hudson shares top tips to help advisers increase protection revenue.

Almost as many UK workers believe they are likely to win the lottery (8%) as they are to be unable to work due to sickness for 12 weeks or more (9%), a survey for Cirencester Friendly has found.

Zurich UK paid 92% of critical illness (CI) claims made in the first half of 2015, and 82% of income protection claims, the insurer's claims statistics have revealed.

Exeter Family Friendly has seen a further 10% increase in the proportion of applicants receiving instant underwriting decisions for income protection (IP) since their adoption of UnderwriteMe.

Dentists' Provident will use OnBase by Hyland as its enterprise content management system (ECM) to digitise its policy and claims processes.

Seven Families has revealed the seventh family to benefit from the campaign, the Knights from Newcastle.

Wesleyan has launched a new personal Income Protection (IP) plan tailored to its medical, dental and legal customers.

LV= has seen its protection sales increase by 50% in the first six months of 2015 with £144m of sales.

Mark Myers says that small is beautiful when it comes to some of the smaller insurers' approaches to transparency.

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) is developing a workplace statement that will allow employers to tell employees exactly what sickness benefits they are entitled to.