Income Protection

Complaints about critical illness (CI) have spiked sharply over the last six months, the FSA has reported.

Cirencester friendly has appointed a new sales and marketing director.

The Disability Benefits Consortium (DBC) has produced a ‘myth buster' factsheet issuing a stark warning for potential future claimants about the realities of the impending welfare reforms.

Just one quarter of people in employment prior to successfully claiming Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) had returned to work 18 months later, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has found.

Subscribers to the Protection Review believe the industry should address perceived problems with Activities of Daily living (ADL) & Activities of Daily Working (ADW) definitions for income protection policies.

A buyers' guide to short-term income protection (IP) and mortgage payment protection insurance (MPPI) has been launched to assist consumer awareness of the products.

Tim Breedon, CEO of Legal & General (L&G), is to retire from the company at the end of 2012, when he will have completed a quarter of a century at the insurer.

Exeter Family Friendly is believed to be one of the first insurers to publicly revamp its protection products to accommodate the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling on gender based pricing.

Cirencester friendly's income protection (IP) product has been added to Intrinsic's protection panel.

Aviva suffered a massive backlash on social media site Twitter last night against its placement of an advert for income protection (IP) showing a motorbike accident during ITV's popular period drama Downton Abbey.