Income Protection

Cirencester Friendly paid £3.3m in sick pay benefit for its income protection customers in 2014, with 94% of eligible claims paid.

Canada Life has announced that its Early Intervention Service (EIS) has seen 47% of referrals result in a return to work.

Group life assurance is offered by 36% of employers a survey by Group Risk Development (GRiD) has found.

London & Country Mortgages has announced it will donate £1 for every case where customers arrange one or more policies in 2015 to Winston's Wish.

Paradigm Mortgage Services has announced a series of events for advisers including best practice in the protection industry.

Cancer related deaths could be ‘effectively eliminated' except in late old age by 2050 if the current trends in treatment and prevention continue, a report from UCL has found.

London & Country has reported a 3% increase in income protection (IP) sales - partly attributed to greater awareness and adviser conversations following the Seven Families campaign.

Wow, 2014 has absolutely flown, hasn't it? I'm writing this within earshot of continued debates in our office on the best mince pie (Waitrose and Aldi seem to now have been topped by Lidl and M&S.)

Universal Provident is to hold its new business rates for both individual and corporate private medical insurance (PMI) at its upcoming January Review.

LV= has announced it will host nine seminars for advisers on how to boost income protection sales, around the UK.