Income Protection

UK businesses should manage absence in the short-term by decreasing the amount they will pay for future sick leave through income protection, an insurer has urged.

Almost two-thirds of employees say they will be forced to make up for a deficiency in their pension with a wage, findings from Canada Life reveal.

Aviva has launched a specialist protection team to offer a tailored service for protection cases with high levels of cover and large premiums.

Canada Life Group Insurance has expanded its Best Doctors service offering with the launch of Doctor Online.

Specialist insurer, UK General, has designed a bespoke income protection policy in a deal with Best Insurance.

The FCA is being criticised for failure to issue guidelines to lenders to financially protect consumers when making a mortgage offer.

Zurich UK Life's protection business has grown 'rapidly', according to its 2013 annual results.

Friends Life has raised £140,000 for the Lister Macmillan Cancer Centre which will go towards initiatives including a welfare benefits advice service.

Canada Life Group Insurance has expanded its Group Income Protection (GIP) Early Intervention Service (EIS) to cover over 320,000 additional employees.

One in ten advisers believe the raft of changes to income protection (IP) and critical illness (CI) policies last year represent ‘window dressing' instead of real change, according to a poll.