Planet Insurance

Sometimes a number of factors come together unexpectedly which provide an opportunity to re-think procedures that have been applied for a long period of time.

The government has finally published its green paper on the future of social care.

The government has finally published its green paper on the future of social care. It proposes a new ‘National Care Service'.

Last month, I covered some of the outstanding matters raised in the IP Task Force White Paper that need to be resolved in order to remove any potential consumer detriment at claims stage for income protection (IP) insurance.

I welcome the publication of the new Income Protection (IP) Task Force White Paper.

The current economic crisis has generated a lot of criticism of the position of public sector workers and in the world of planet insurance, one group of employees could be exempt from the pain of the recession until 2011 - GPs who receive fees for medical...

In July last year, the Pensions Institute of the Cass Business School published Death Shall Have No Dominion: Life Settlements and the Ethics of Profiting from Mortality.

UK and EU deliberations on extending anti-discrimination law to goods and services are still rumbling on and lobby groups continue to press for resolution of "unfinished business".

Last month's COVER Focus on income protection (IP) mentioned October's introduction of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) as a prompt to the public to realise how little state support they would get if they were too ill to work.