PruHealth and PruProtect will be running regional training workshops for their new product launch Health Cover and Health Cover Optomiser.

Steve Elliott, technical manager at Progress from Royal Liver wonders if there is any mileage in the Cup for his industry.

Dominic Howard discusses Best Doctor's plans for expansion into the mainstream with Paul Robertson

Aegon is looking at its method of remunerating advisers selling protection products.

Discovery has outlined some of its plans for Standard Life Healthcare and its integration into the PruProtect and PruHealth camp.

Aegon has introduced a new range of online support material aimed at the business protection market.

Health insurer WPA has announced a trio of changes, within its individual and large corporate markets and in its relationship with advisers.

The reinsurer has reported an increase in sales of new term assurance, critical illness and whole life insurance in 2009, while income protection sales fell. However, the ‘Protection Gap' has widened further.

Up to 79% of European managers are concerned by work-related stress, but less than a third have procedures to deal with it, the biggest workplace health and safety survey in Europe has found.

Friends Provident has launched a new assistance programme as part of a push into the group protection market.