Resolution has completed its acquisition of Bupa Health Assurance (BHA), comprising its Group Risk and Individual Protection businesses.
Axa has amended its critical illness product and unveiled a client support service for all products within its protection account.
Insurers LV=, Zurich, Friends Provident and Fortis are among this year's Gold Standard Award winners.
Protection products will be ‘pivotal' to adviser firms' future prosperity, according to Sesame Bankhall.
Friends Provident has reminded the public that more than 40% of Britons support the introduction of a fat tax.
Friends Provident's total sales rose were up 35% year to date helped by the international business, but UK inflows were flat.
With the protection sector dominated by giants of the insurance world, Owain Thomas spoke to Cirencester friendly's Paul Hudson to hear a smaller provider's view
Friends Provident has launched an online seminar focusing on customer life stages and the changes to them.
Bupa is to sell its UK protection and risk business, Bupa Health Assurance Ltd (BHA), to Resolution for approximately £165.15m.
Friends Provident is unveiling a new protection toolkit and a website which it says has been developed in response to feedback from advisers