Protection

Risk Placement Services is considering extending its offering beyond the ‘special risks' market to help improve sales of income protection and critical illness insurance.

Zurich is launching a guaranteed whole of life policy for consumers who are prepared to pay more for the certainty rates will not change.

The Association of British Insurers is backing calls for the government to remove tax disincentives for employers who provide occupational health services.

Swiss Re has announced it is acquiring GE Life for £465m and anticipates completion of the deal by the end of 2006.

Omagh Independent Advice Service has launched a website for cancer patients to help them deal with the financial impact of sudden illness.

It's nice to be back at my desk after a few weeks out and about. I've seen quite a few IFAs in the last few weeks about various different things, so if you had the displeasure of bumping into me thanks for your insight.

The industry needs to focus on improving income protection rather than trying to increase sales of critical illness, according to intermediaries speaking on IFAonline.tv 's Great Protection Debate .

Advisers must take responsibility for improving protection sales and encouraging innovation in the market, according to speakers at IFAonline.tv's latest forum - the Great Protection Debate .

Norwich Union Healthcare is calling on the government to introduce a "back to work" tax incentive for employers which would encourage them to act sooner to prevent long-term illness among their employees.

Another set of statistics about sales of pension term assurance was published yesterday, this time from HSBC which claims 84% of its life-only policies sold are PTA products.