Group Protection

Friends Provident is adding mastectomy cover and five new ABI+ conditions to its critical illness (CI) product.

Advisers are optimistic about the future of the income protection (IP) market despite overwhelmingly expecting fewer IFAs to be practising in the sector and fewer products being available, new research says.

An opportunity to realise the value of group income protection and get some significant market growth?

Aviva has increased its critical illness (CI) claims payment rate to 93% in the first six months of 2010.

Friends Provident has launched an absence tracking system to help employers tackle the £16.8bn cost of absence.

Protection providers have forgotten consumers in making products too complicated, according to LV=.

LV= has revealed strong protection new business figures for the first half of the year.

Canada Life is introducing telephone interviewing for all of its group insurance products.

PruProtect has revealed its new business grew by 98% to £10.9m (APE) in the first half of 2010.

Owain Thomas looks at the direction of the protection market