Forrester: back to its roots

It has announced the launch of a new Sickness Policy designed specifically to support the self-employed and those in a job with minimal or no sick pay. The features and pricing of the policy have been tailored to reflect the Society's policyholders' perception of sickness and injury protection as a means of bridging short-term financially troubled waters, as opposed to a long-term means of removing the need to generate income through employment. Neil Armitage, marketing director at Foresters Friendly Society, said: This takes us back to Foresters' origins as a mutual, the old shilling a...