Protection

Rewind 12 months and not many of us could have predicted the outcomes we have seen over the last year.

Insurer Aon has been hit with the FSA's largest ever financial crime-related fine after it unwittingly made more than $7m worth of "suspicious" payments to overseas firms and individuals.

I hope you all had a restful break and are ready to return to the fast paced protection industry that we know and love. And wasn't it just that last year?

Mortgage brokers are successfully cross-selling as they search for fresh income streams in the credit crunch, research suggests.

Unusual insurance claims dealt with by Lloyds TSB advisers in 2008 included a man who had shot his own TV, the firm reveals.

Half of consumers without protection cover say policies are too expensive, research suggests.

The FOS reflects on outcomes of ABI guidance

Is past claims performance a guide to the future or will the FOS work on transparency be valuable to the industry? Gill Salton asks.

The FSA has published its RDR feedback statement. Will distinguishing between independent and sales advice, setting minimum qualifications for IFAs and introducing a standard for independent advice ‘reform the investment market' and increase confidence...

Last month's COVER Focus on income protection (IP) mentioned October's introduction of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) as a prompt to the public to realise how little state support they would get if they were too ill to work.