Group operating profit at LV= rose 103% to £79 million in H1, largely due to an increase in retirement and income protection sales.

Friends Life, part of the Aviva Group, is offering counselling and carer support services to customers taking out protection cover.

Cirencester Friendly has urged advisers to help tackle the problem of Britons being unprepared for a long-term, health-enforced absence from work.

British Friendly Society has appointed Iain Clark in the new role of Marketing and Distribution Director.

In 2014, £3.44bn was paid to nearly 128,500 customers or families, up from £3.08bn paid out the previous year to help 98,900 households, according to the latest ABI...

Friends Life has enhanced its quotation platform's maximum benefit calculator facility to help advisers submitting income protection applications see how much income their clients will...

TenetLime has added specialist insurance brokerage, Protect Line, to its membership line-up.

Between June 2014 and June 2015, the cheapest home insurance premiums fell by 6.6%, with just over a third of this fall (35%) occuring in the two months between April and June 2015...

LifeQuote has said that MMR and its resultant focus on cash flow for borrowers has driven it to launch a premium driven service to support the traditional sum assured approach.

Kevin Paterson's Expert Opinion this week covers the Consumer Rights Act, a change in leadership at the regulator, and a loss of good faith.