Having read recent calls from the protection insurance market in the media about the formation of a specialist protection insurance group, Protect and its members are willing to support such an entity.

APFA has confirmed it has no intentions of creating a stand-alone focus on protection amid industry lobbying about the need for a more prominent, unified voice within an existing adviser trade body.

A quarter of protection advisers at a recent industry body training session said they were keen to ditch multi-application approaches in favour of more efficient pre-underwriting processes.

Exeter Family Friendly has published statistics for income protection claims in 2012.

Advisers are showing increasing interest in restricted advice models, but the majority are still trading with independent models, Aviva has reported.

Nicola Culley asks if the introduction of auto-enrolment will deliver new business to the group life market or if employers burdened by the extra costs will cut back.

Friends Life has no current plans to publish income protection claims statistics, citing concerns about inconsistent and differing criteria.

Steve Sharrock, head of intermediary sales at Westfield Health - how can brokers take advantage of the cashplans market?

Ben Heffer, insight analyst of life and protection at Defaqto, explains how the market is more than just a one-dimensional growth story

Mike Wagg, head of intermediary sales at Simplyhealth - where is the cashplans market currently sitting?