Individual Protection

The government has suffered a significant setback in its welfare reform agenda after the House of Lords defeated three of the coalition's main proposals.

Paradigm Mortgage Services has added protection specialist, Engage Mutual Assurance, to its protection panel.

So, you haven't sold income protection to your clients. What's the worst that can happen? According to John Bridge, an awful lot...

Severity based protection payments have become more common over the year. Phil Jeynes explains why in his overview of 2011

Fergus Bescoby looks at the insurance implications of this condition which is particularly common in women

Owain Thomas finds that, sometimes, driving a Ford Focus rather than an Aston Martin is a good thing

Ageas Protect is to contact critical illness customers, including those that have already claimed, to inform them that their terms and conditions have been improved.

Universal Provident has increased its maximum initial insurable benefit under LivingCare, its long term disability insurance policy, from £20,000 to £35,000 per annum.

The fit note is failing to reduce employee sickness absence and may take five years to become fully integrated, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) has revealed.

Introducing gender-neutral rates will result in premium hikes for life insurance and critical illness (CI), HM Treasury has warned.