Income Protection

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.

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.