Income Protection
Insurer
Aviva paid out £513m on claims in 2014, an increase on the 2013 figure of £505m as it released its annual claims statistics.
16 March 2015
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1 min read
Insurer
VitalityLife paid £25m in 2014 to customers claiming on life serious illness and income protection policies, an increase of 66% compared to 2013.
16 March 2015
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2 min read
Critical Illness
Friends Life has launched ‘Global Treatment' with Best Doctors as an add-on to its protection policies offering policyholders the option of going abroad for serious illness treatment.
12 March 2015
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Income Protection
Teresa Fritz is to join the executive committee of the Income Protection Task Force from 1 April 2015.
12 March 2015
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Employee Benefits
The Health Insurance Group has found that of 50,000 health MOTs in the workplace last year 17% of the UK workforce had a BMI greater than 30 - defined as ‘clinically obese' by the World Health Organisation.
10 March 2015
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1 min read
Income Protection
The proportion of households which in the event of losing their income from sickness or unemployment would rely on income protection have fallen by a quarter to 9% in two years, according to research.
10 March 2015
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Insurer
LV= will donate 77p to Seven Families for every valid Flexible Protection Plan (FPP) income protection application received.
05 March 2015
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1 min read
Insurer
None of the ten biggest providers of critical illness and income protection policies offer products for HIV positive people, a survey for Unusual Risks has found.
02 March 2015
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Income Protection
The word protection has ‘toxic' connotations due to consumers wrongly associating products with the PPI scandal, according to the chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Insurance and Financial services.
25 February 2015
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Critical Illness
Jo Miller goes through the key findings of this year's major report by The Syndicate into the public's attitudes to the protection industry
24 February 2015
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