Complaints about critical illness (CI) have spiked sharply over the last six months, the FSA has reported.
Cigna has reached a deal to buy protection and travel insurance provider FirstAssist with the aim of growing its UK presence.
Almost half of Openwork's advisers have moved onto its protection panel since it launched 12 months ago.
Almost 30 million protection policies were in force last year with consumers receiving over £32m per day in benefits, according to the ABI.
Legal & General has launched a free protection app for iPhones and iPads.
Clients' protection needs must take priority over investment ones in a simplified advice regime, the FSA has said.
Aviva has unveiled the second in its series of consumer focused protection adverts - this time promoting the importance of income protection (IP), with critical illness (CI) to follow.
PruProtect has called critics of its desire for protection to be made compulsory as being "defeatist" and argued that the need is "very clear".
Grid has argued that incentivisation is the best way for the protection market to expand - not compulsion.
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