Grid has added its voice to the warning that many businesses are not prepared for the upcoming ‘A-day' deadline for group life schemes.
The asset threshold over which individuals cannot access state help with long term care (LTC) bills has been frozen at £23,250 until 2013.
Disability campaigners have hit back at government plans that will see banks pay less than disabled people to cut the national deficit.
Groupama Healthcare saw its business grow, as total revenues at Groupama Insurances rose 4.6% to £470.9 million (2009: £450.3 million), mainly down to rising premium rates in the company's private car portfolio.
The Government has announced an independent review into sickness absence in the workplace.
Zurich has recorded its highest quarterly protection market share as part of an overall growth in its IFA presence.
Insurers could be prevented from using age, health and any other form of differentiation to underwrite and price products if a French administrative authority has its way.
What Insure has launched an income protection (IP) product including cover in the event of someone becoming a carer.
The FSA expects protection and health insurance to be among the most likely product areas affected if the European Court of Justice (ECJ) rules that gender based pricing is illegal.
Cirencester friendly paid 94% of its valid income protection (IP) claims totalling £2.7m in 2010 and reiterated its call for other providers follow suit.