Protection

Consumers increasingly appreciate the need for protection insurance when they are told about the limitations of state benefits, new research has found.

Protection complaints continued to rise during the year and have already breached last year's totals in some product areas.

Bright Grey has urged Britons to cut back on spending to help stabilise their finances and provide enough to secure a safety net for emergencies.

LV= has changed its underwriting rules to allow more applications to receive an immediate online decision.

Paradigm Mortgage Services has added protection specialist, Engage Mutual Assurance, to its protection panel.

IFAs are increasingly positive about the protection market's prospects for 2012, according to a new survey.

An industry expert has called for greater engagement by the protection industry to prevent regulation of payment protection insurance (PPI) hurting the protection market.

The government has begun consulting on how insurers can use gender as a risk factor after a European Court of Justice ruling said providers could not charge different premiums to men and women because of their sex.

Aviva has been reprimanded over its "Downton Abbey" sponsorship idents after media regulator Ofcom decided they broke advertising rules.

Disability and working age benefits will rise by 5.2% next year, the Chancellor has announced.