Individual Protection

The UK market will continue to shift towards protection says Aviva's Toby Strauss, after the insurer reported its third consecutive quarter of life sales growth.

Incredibly common, yet little understood by the public, Fergus Bescoby investigates the insurance angle.

Aviva has signed a five year deal to provide protection products for Santander from June 2011.

Legal & General has applauded the "laudable ambitions" of today's 21st Century Welfare consultation paper and believes the protection industry is the perfect partner to assist the Government in welfare reform.

Benefit claimants currently too sick to work could face losing their payments if they do not go back into employment.

A single state benefit could be moving a step nearer today with the publication of a consultation paper on the future of the welfare state.

Half of private medical and dental insurance complaints received by the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) have been upheld in the first quarter of the year.

Protection provider Unum is announcing changes to its individual income protection (IP) offering, increasing options.

From the end of September Skandia will no longer sell Critical Illness (CI) policies.

Zurich has enhanced its protection products for clients who may need to make alterations to existing cover when their circumstances change.