Opinion

The FSA and Office of Fair Trading met last month with providers and advisers to debate short-term income protection final guidance. There were demands for the regulator to go further than simply highlighting PPI problems. Has the regulator done its job?...

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Like it or not, when assessing the hours of work per case in relation to the remuneration, protection business is often less profitable than other lines of advice.

Having read recent calls from the protection insurance market in the media about the formation of a specialist protection insurance group, Protect and its members are willing to support such an entity.

Clive Waller ponders the necessity of claims statistics if insurers are to be taken seriously.

There must have been more than a few sweaty brows last week when the HBOS disaster broke wide open in all its gory detail.

The Consumer Insurance Act has been heralded as simply codifying current best practice within the insurance market. This does not reflect the fundamental change to pre-contract disclosure brought about by this legislation, abolishing the consumer's duty...

Surveys suggest only around 1 in 10 UK employees have income protection insurance, yet as Which? says ‘The one protection policy every working adult in the UK should consider is the very one most of us don't have - income protection'.

I once had a bet with a press officer that I could get the term "viatical settlement" into a press release. I did have some insider information and won my bet. I wish I could have lost a similar bet on this article.

Tax relief for businesses for health interventions is a great start, says Unum's John Letizia, but we should push for more