Protection

Insurers are handling more than 50,000 claims following the recent floods, according to the Association of British Insurers (ABI).

Scottish Provident will retain its brand name following the proposed Resolution and Friends Provident merger .

Medical check-ups and health screenings for employees will be exempt from taxation from the middle of August.

Today a colleague asked me what I'd been up to over the weekend. I reeled off a list of highlights. A couple of fitness classes, took my son to see ‘Transformers' at the cinema, watched another (much better) film called ‘Hot Fuzz' on DVD , went to a swimming...

Norwich Union has cut prices on mortgage life insurance policies to help customers struggling to keep up protection repayments as interest rates rise it was announced today.

Advisers are doing a good job counselling clients Skandia says, as critical illness claims paid rose another 1%, to 89%, in the half year to June 2007.

The Government must not build housing developments on flood-prone areas, says the Association of British Insurers (ABI).

Pioneer Friendly Society has removed the final two exclusions, war and HIV, on its pure protection contract.

Half of the UK adult population has insufficient life cover, despite Standard Life's assertion insurance has never been cheaper.

LV=, the insurer formerly Liverpool Victoria, has appointed Keith Abercromby as group director of finance.