Income protection

MetLife in protection partnership with iPipeline

MetLife has announced a strategic partnership with iPipeline to grow the distribution of its...

Cirencester Friendly paid 95.2% of claims last year

Cirencester Friendly paid 95.2% of income protection claims in 2018, an increase on last...

VitalityLife unveils new mortgage plan

VitalityLife has launched a new Mortgage Plan, specifically designed for mortgage protection. Alongside this, VitalityLife...

L&G unveils income protection adviser hub

Legal & General has launched a new dedicated Income Protection (IP) Adviser Hub to...

British Friendly joins PRIMIS protection panel

PRIMIS has announced the addition of British Friendly’s range of income protection products to...

Cirencester Friendly launches My Earnings Protected

Cirencester Friendly has relaunched its income protection product My Earnings Insurance with key improvements. Now known...

Cirencester Friendly adds Member Rewards scheme

Cirencester Friendly has revised its income protection range with the addition of a Member...

LV= unveils Parent and Child cover amid introduction of new IP features

LV= has introduced of a range of new features to its Income Protection (IP)...

Cirencester Friendly ups new business commission rates

Cirencester Friendly has announced that new business introductory commission rates in respect of its...

L&G improves intermediary income protection proposition

Legal & General has updated its Income Protection Benefit plan (IPB) available through Intermediaries,...

Royal London reveals 2017 protection claim statistics

Royal London has reported that it paid out over £517m in protection claims last...

The Exeter to provide IP for Type 2 Diabetes

The Exeter has changed its underwriting approach to offer income protection (IP) cover to...

L&G paid out 98% of all life claims in 2017

Legal & General paid out a total of £636m across its life, critical illness,...

Mothers lacking in financial protection

Scottish Widows has reported that 60% of women in the UK with dependent children...

COMMENT

Working up those income streams

Some might say the UK labour market has lost some of its confidence. Unemployment is rising, job moves have slowed, and many employers are...

Ignore the Gen Z worker stereotypes – the future is bright

The office fridge. Full of 12 types of milk, none derived from cows, and four on the work top, at room temperature. As for...

Reframe Cancer 2026 trends: prevention to take centre stage

This year is already shaping up to be one when prevention is taking centre stage. The Government recently announced the expansion of its WorkWell...

The mortgage protection gap advisers can’t ignore

The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) consumer research findings published late last year, offered an insight into what the protection industry can expect from the...

Cashback, remortgages and adviser opportunity in 2026

A recent flood of mortgage products into the market offering cashback prove it has moved from the margins of the remortgage market to the...

Latest news

The Coventry cuts selected intermediary residential fixed rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced a number of residential fixed-rate products for new and...

Mortgage Advice Bureau completes acquisition of Dashly

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has completed the acquisition of technology and data company Dashly,...

The Buckinghamshire lowers rates across key ranges

Buckinghamshire Building Society has cut rates across a wide spread of residential and buy-to-let...

FCA finds protection market delivering good outcomes, says TPFG

The Property Franchise Group PLC (TPFG) has responded to the publication of the Financial...

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