Individual Protection

Select & Protect (S&P) is to launch a Mortgage Payment Protection Insurance (MPPI) product provided by FirstAssist Insurance Services which will be available to all S&P brokers.

Incorporating life cover with Personal Accounts would cut an estimated £2.3trn protection gap by 20% in one fell swoop, Friends Provident CEO Trevor Matthews says.

PruProtect has launched two new products with a whole raft of developments that it thinks will reinvigorate the protection. What are your first opinions of the provider's work?

Just how clear is the future for critical illness? Steve Casey outlines the factors contributing to the product's future.

A recent survey has highlighted the frightening vulnerability of UK firms to illness and death. Clare Harrop outlines the extent of the business protection market.

Sales related to PPI implosion

Peter Carvill tries to understand why group critical illness appears to be underperforming and how advisers and providers are looking to change this Click here to download pdf (PDF, 2MB)

Everything seems to be going online at the moment, even the things that the protection industry said it wanted to keep within the realms of advisers. Peter Carvill questions the wisdom of such a move.

Canada Life Group Insurance has introduced a one-time underwriting policy on its group life schemes.

When approaching later life, as term assurance comes to an end, clients do not want to be concerned with either increasing mortgage terms or reevaluating wills in order to avoid inheritance tax issues. By taking out whole of life cover instead, Simon...