Zurich

Zurich has launched a free and confidential support service for its protection customers and their immediate families.

Zurich has increased the maximum term for its critical illness cover from 30 to 40 years, in a bid to protect customers with longer mortgages and to reflect changing retirement patterns.

What issues do you think the protection market needs to draw attention to more or aren't being discussed enough?

Zurich has revealed it paid 100% of income protection claims during January and June 2014.

Insurer claims "all key measures" have improved in past 12 months.

Zurich has increased its financial evidence limits for customers applying for life and critical illness insurance.

Zurich has enhanced its Whole of Life proposition by providing advisers with access to online quotes and applications.

Zurich is extending the age limit of its investment-linked protection product, Investment Life Cover, for customers up to their 70th birthday.

Individual critical illness saw a relentless pace of change last year. But has the industry gone far enough? Fiona Murphy investigates.

I am a protection and mortgage IFA with a few clients looking at Help to Buy. How can I arrange protection insurance for them such as life cover? I understand there have been difficulties in putting cover in place - is this the case, and what do I need...