Protection

Aviva has bowed to public pressure and toned down its Downtown Abbey motorcycle crash victim ads.

The UK insurance industry is urging the FSA to push ahead with some parts of the Solvency II regime at the start of 2013, despite the fact the rest of the continent is likely to delay until 2014.

The Competition Commission's first set of remedies for payment protection insurance (PPI) were introduced on Saturday.

Stonebridge Group, the mortgage and insurance network, has introduced a new life and protection panel to run alongside its existing whole of market (WOM) offering.

The British Insurance Brokers' Association (Biba) has welcomed the FSA's decision to restart its funding review of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS).

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

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

Bupa has been named as the official health insurance partner of UK Sport for the next two years, including the London Olympics.

A pensioner who faked his own death and posed as his wife to fraudulently claim on his life insurance has been jailed for six years.

David Child has taken over the role of Lifesearch managing director from Tom Baigrie, who moves to become chief executive of the company.