Individual Protection

The FSA today proposes income protection plans with a 'small' investment element, better known as Holloway policies, should be exempt from the RDR's adviser charging and professionalism rules.

Employers are neglecting business protection and employee benefits in a bid to cut costs, according to a new study.

Cirencester friendly has called on the government to play its part in supporting simple financial products by publicising those that already exist.

Sickness benefit claimants are ‘not well prepared' for Work Capability Assessments (WCA) that decide their eligibility, an investigation has revealed.

LV= has launched its Little Book of Protection to assist advisers through the sales process.

The business protection gap remains static at over a trillion, a Legal & General (L&G) survey of the market suggests.

Benefit claimants who refuse to take up the offer of a training course could have their payments stopped, according to government plans.

As research shows two in five IFAs believe clients do not understand protection, Scottish Provident has called for advisers to support its education campaign.

The government can not recover overpayments of social security benefits through the courts where the claimant is not at fault, the country's top court has ruled.

RGA actuary Greg Becker discusses the lessons that can be learnt from the South African protection market.