Pioneer and Exeter Friendly have confirmed they will come together under the Exeter Family Friendly name and the provider says it will focus on selling its products through intermediaries.
Fortis is introducing discounts for new customers who purchase more than one cover.
Protection providers have forgotten consumers in making products too complicated, according to LV=.
LV= has revealed strong protection new business figures for the first half of the year.
Owain Thomas looks at the direction of the protection market
Zurich is improving the underwriting service on its mortgage and family protection proposition.
Bupa promises new products will be launched in the next six months and into 2011 as it announced a steady performance for the first half of 2010.
People being assessed for their ability to work are overwhelmingly being found fit and able to look for a job, according to new figures out today.
Advisers could face using approved scripts when selling protection after criticism about poor intermediary product explanations by the FSA.
British employees are leaving themselves woefully unprotected financially in the event that something unpredictable happens leaving them unable to work, according to new research.