Bupa is offering a free health assessment to all new income protection customers and their introducing intermediary.

The cost to the State of people running out of funds to meet their long term care costs will treble to £2.75bn in England alone over the next 20 years, according to Partnership.

Most UK employees would rather suffer in silence with a health concern or personal issue than tell their boss or colleagues, according to new research.

Friends Provident says it sees no near term improvement in the UK protection market after announcing a fall of 10% on individual sales for the last six months.

Eight in ten workers are not making the most of their employee benefits package,and blame employer communication, according to new research from Personal Group.

Tenet is stepping in to bail-out adviser firms that have been let down by "unsympathetic or unwilling" banks.

Zurich is improving the underwriting service on its mortgage and family protection proposition.

Aegon's life and protection earnings leapt by 83% in the first half of the year while its sales grew by 8% compared to the same period in 2009.

Bupa promises new products will be launched in the next six months and into 2011 as it announced a steady performance for the first half of 2010.

Ellipse has revealed a first look for the whole market at its automated medical underwriting process which takes underwriting forms out of advisers' hands by contacting members directly.