Legal & General’s Deadline to Breadline research 2017 of 2,000 full and part-time employees, reveals that on average UK employees could be on the breadline in just 32 days if they lost their main source of income due to long-term sickness, critical illness or death. Other key findings from the research: More than a quarter [...]

“My GI Book” is going live in our release this Sunday the 18th. So from Monday you will be able to log in and see ALL your in-force policies. You’ll be able to click on the Policy Reference number and see more details of the policy and if a policy has a cancellation pending, there [...]

This quarter we're proud to have launched our new business protection toolkit - providing all the support and information you need to understand, discuss and write business protection. Carole's breast cancer story reinforces the value of critical illness cover, and find out how our health and wellbeing service is being used - providing additional support [...]

Traditionally, insurance premiums have been determined upfront, based on the risk known to the insurer. In 2013, VitalityLife changed this model in the UK when they launched Vitality Optimiser. Since then, they have launched a more advanced Optimiser, Wellness Optimiser. Now three out of every four new VitalityLife plans are sold with an Optimiser. However [...]

Welcome to this week's Protection Update. Please take the time to read through the update as there may be some information that is important to you. Included in this week's update: Grow your protection business with positive conversations with Scottish Widows; AIG launch new business protection toolkit; Paymentshield launch 'My GI book'. [...]

LV= wanted to help you reach more clients, which is why they’ve added new benefits and a created a wider eligibility than ever before. LV=’s exteeeended Income Protection is now here and ready to help you reach even more clients. If you haven’t already heard, here are the changes they’ve made! The addition of parent [...]

Focusing on additional support services like Scottish Widows Care can demonstrate protection’s real value to clients. Talking about the tangible benefits available to policyholders in the here and now can add a whole new angle to protection. Cura Financial Services grew their protection business by 16.5% over 18 months by using a positive, human approach [...]

Just wanted to have a quick catch up regarding IP this month. We have a very good income protection tool available on our website, which can be very useful when trying to show clients the importance of income protection. Below is an example of what the webpage looks like, it also shows a percentage of [...]

Winter brings darker evenings, less sunshine and perhaps less opportunity to go for a simple walk. These things can be contributors to happiness and keeping healthy, and your clients rely on good health to be able to work and bring in an income. So, it’s good to know that from day one, The Exeter can [...]

Aviva has launched a new online hub to help financial advisers boost the protection side of their business – and bank CPD hours to boot. The ‘Adviser Business Accelerator’ website includes expert tips and step by step guides to help advisers get more from their business development and client acquisition efforts. Jim Hunter, Sales Manager [...]