Protection

The European Parliament has faced a call to arms over the treatment of chronic pain.

Increasing employee engagement improves absenteeism rates and take-up of benefit packages according to new research.

Aegon will retain its UK life insurance and protection businesses after outlining the latest stage of plans to cut costs by 25%.

Friends Provident is unveiling a new protection toolkit and a website which it says has been developed in response to feedback from advisers

Bupa is unveiling a new corporate cash plan which starts from £1 per employee, per week.

The NHS could use incentives to help people quit unhealthy habits if proposals from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) are adopted.

Protection specialists have welcomed the conclusions on the sale of pure protection released today by the FSA in PS10/13.

The FSA has confirmed group business is exempted from commission disclosure requirements laid out in PS10/13, since it was not the intention of the RDR to bring commercial group risk into its scope.

Firms can 'make a judgement' about when pure protection services are associated with investment advice as the FSA settles on a more relaxed disclosure regime under COBS.

Bronek Masojada, the chief executive of Hiscox has called for a separate trade body to represent the interests of general insurance from those of the life and savings sector.