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Advisers and insurers believe improved trust would be the most likely factor to increase protection sales while technology is at the bottom of the agenda, a poll has found.

Canada Life Group Insurance has added a treatment sourcing service to its group income protection (GIP) and group critical illness (CGI) schemes providing fixed-price private medical treatments tailored to an individual's circumstances.

ACE Group has launched an income protection product, Sickpay Plus, where claims can be made from 8 days after an individual is signed off as sick or injured.

Pre-tax profit at Saga dropped by £60m in the six months to 31 July 2014 with IPO costs totalling £50.8m.

Unum has urged the government to improve take-up of income protection (IP) through four key steps including channels such as the Money Advice Service (MAS) raising awareness of sickness absence.

Stonebridge Mortgage Solutions, the mortgage and insurance network, has added Engage Mutual's over 50s life cover to its protection panel.

Ellipse has created a new online nomination of beneficiary facility for members of registered group life schemes enabling employers to set up and run group life cover.

Almost two-thirds (62%) of men who have completed cancer treatment have had a positive experience of returning to work, research has found.

Thousands of UK adults are risking their heart health because they don't know the warning signs for coronary heart disease (CHD), a poll has found.

COVER's sister title WSB has exclusively revealed that the introduction of the Health and Work Service (HWS) has been delayed until December.