Unum

Unum has become the second insurer to use ITV's Downton Abbey to promote the importance of income protection (IP).

New research on how information is most easily understood has revealed the insurance industry lags behind others in presenting information simply.

Health Insurers were the subject of just 122 complaints to the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) in the first six months of this year.

Customers find insurance terminology and information the most difficult to understand compared to many other sectors including banking, according to new research.

Living on state benefits would require significant lifestyle changes for those found too sick to work compared to being employed, a team of bloggers has found.

Unum is challenging six UK bloggers to live on Employment Support Allowance (ESA) for one week to highlight the importance of workers protecting their income.

Unum has ceased writing new business in the individual critical illness (CI) market.

British workers are among the worst protected among their peers in the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and government incentives should address it, according to a new report.

LifeSearch has called on the ABI and Treasury to halt the European Court of Justice's (ECJ) "ignorant" ruling to ban gender-based underwriting.

Unum has warned that the Welfare Reform Bill will mean benefits are harder to come by while the Citizen's Advice Bureau (CAB) claims reforms are unfair to the sick.