Income Protection

Legal & General has launched an online calculator that provides instant quotations for businesses looking to provide group life and group income protection policies for their employees.

British Money has launched Universal Cover which pays mortgage borrowers who lose their jobs or who are prevented from working due to an accident, sickness or caring commitments for up to a year.

Almost seven in ten (69%) employees say that flexible working is critical in easing work-related stress, according to a survey.

Marco Ferato, chief marketing officer at Unum, discusses the employee benefits market moving away from a reliance on life cover and towards addressing the risk of sickness absence.

Lifesearch is raising awareness of the perception gap between the number of protection claims people believe are paid; compared to the actual number of claims that are paid out.

PruProtect has published its first set of paid claim statistics since it came to the UK market in 2007.

LV= has announced it is offering a 5% discount on premium rates for a number of its protection products.

The UK is a 'nation of stressed staff' - with people eating lunch at their desks, working overtime and through holidays and sickness, according to new research.

Andrew Tripp, a former chairman of AMII, has launched new PMI and protection provider ESMI, which he claims will ‘revolutionise' health insurance.

LV has reported a fall in its protection sales of 9%, according to its interim results for the half year to 30 June 2013.