Individual Protection

LV= has revealed strong protection new business figures for the first half of the year.

It's a pleasant change to think positively about the direction of the protection market and to identify a significant opportunity for advisers.

Zurich is improving the underwriting service on its mortgage and family protection proposition.

Bupa promises new products will be launched in the next six months and into 2011 as it announced a steady performance for the first half of 2010.

People being assessed for their ability to work are overwhelmingly being found fit and able to look for a job, according to new figures out today.

Advisers could face using approved scripts when selling protection after criticism about poor intermediary product explanations by the FSA.

British employees are leaving themselves woefully unprotected financially in the event that something unpredictable happens leaving them unable to work, according to new research.

For COVER's editor, Paul Robertson, it's a case of wondering if protection markets really matter.

Resolution has bought Axa's UK protection business as part of a deal for the whole of its Life organisation worth £2.75bn.

LV= has announced improved flexibility and lower pricing for its mortgage and lifestyle protection product.