Individual Protection

Legal & General (L&G) has launched a business protection tool enabling advisers to help firms calculate the value of its 'key people' for insurance purposes.

Isn't Google amazing? If you want to find out the answer to an obscure question, the exact location of an address you are heading to, or a photograph of a movie star you admire, positive results are only a few clicks away.

LV= has announced price cuts across 80% of its critical illness (CI) range.

Job Centre staff have expressed "grave concerns" at the "unexpectedly severe" health of some people put into work-related activity as part of claiming Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), a new report has revealed.

Friends Provident is launching three new business protection seminars, aimed at advisers who have different levels of business protection knowledge.

Nearly half (24 million) of people in the UK have no insurance in place to cover loss of income through illness or the death of a breadwinner.

The financial ombudsman (FOS) has hit back at criticism of its complaints statistics, saying the data was not designed for consumer use but to encourage firms to handle client grievances more efficiently.

As we move into a new decade, there couldn't be a better time for advisers to be looking at the protection needs of their clients, old and new.

Pruprotect grew strongly last year but its stable mate Pruhealth suffered a tougher 12 months.

Pruprotect looks set to reveal a substantial gain in its new business for last year but its stable mate Pruhealth appears to have suffered a tougher 12 months.