Six million homes, half of all mortgaged residential property in the UK, could be at risk because the owners are not covered by any form of protection insurance, according to research from life and pensions provider Friends Life.
Clients' protection priorities are changing and so too are the tools on offer to help advisers find the right solutions.
Zurich has seen a 4% rise in the number of income protection claims settled in favour of the claimant in the first six months of the year, paying out to 94% of cases.
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The last company to release its Income Protection Statistics, Friends Life, has done so today, following an industry campaign by the Income Protection Task Force and the Protection Review.
LV= will switch its protection business to gender neutral rates on 1 December and has announced its pipeline strategy for advisers.
Research from Scottish Widows shows fewer people are buying protection even though they know savings are insufficient to cope in the event of lost income.