Individual Protection

Friends Life has defended its direct to consumer proposition, PlanWise, against an claims it is using the service to cut advisers out of the sales process.

Protection provider Unum received a broadly positive reaction on Twitter to its upbeat adverts for income protection, aired last night, in stark contrast to the wave of criticism levelled at larger rival Aviva for its shock-tactic ads.

Defaqto and other ratings agencies have been attacked for "driving the wrong behaviour" by encouraging product complexity and being "in danger of misleading consumers".

Bereavement is bad enough without money troubles. Rachel Clarke explains the complexities of using whole of life policies

Unum has become the second insurer to use ITV's Downton Abbey to promote the importance of income protection (IP).

The project to bring about an income protection (IP) quality standard (QS) has been abandoned.

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

British bosses are more likely to protect their office equipment than their key staff, according to new research.

PruProtect has produced a microsite for advisers about its serious illness cover product.

Ever wondered why females tend to outlive males? Is gender a ‘short-cut' - a proxy to behavioural differences? Eli Friedwald takes a tour of the competing theories trying to explain the difference in life expectancy between the sexes