Mortgage adviser network Pink Home Loans is to ask intermediaries wishing to join the group to provide proof they have an income protection (IP) policy, or to explain their reasons for not being covered.

Mortgage network Pink has said all its intermediaries will now discuss income protection with clients from the first meeting onwards.

Zurich has launched a flexible group income protection (IP) proposition aimed at businesses with at least 250 employees.

Friends Life has launched the first employer funded group cancer workplace benefit in the UK.

Dr Marius Barnard, the founder of critical illness insurance, has died at the age of 87.

Transact and Ageas Protect have teamed up to launch an investment-linked life cover policy available via Transact's platform.

Aegon UK has launched a whole of life protection plan which offers the ability to place the policy in a discretionary trust at application.

Independent financial advisers have joined the Tyrannosaurus Rexs, Triceratops and Velociraptors as an extinct species in an exhibition sponsored by online life insurer Beagle Street.

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