Unum

Unum is challenging six UK bloggers to live on Employment Support Allowance (ESA) for one week to highlight the importance of workers protecting their income.

Unum has ceased writing new business in the individual critical illness (CI) market.

British workers are among the worst protected among their peers in the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and government incentives should address it, according to a new report.

LifeSearch has called on the ABI and Treasury to halt the European Court of Justice's (ECJ) "ignorant" ruling to ban gender-based underwriting.

Unum has warned that the Welfare Reform Bill will mean benefits are harder to come by while the Citizen's Advice Bureau (CAB) claims reforms are unfair to the sick.

Aviva has unveiled its protection TV advertising campaign. Is this the chink of light that the industry needs to maximise consumer awareness and engagement, and will it prompt further moves by insurers either individually or collectively?

Unum has launched the UK's first fully fledged group risk scheme that can be fully funded by employee contributions alone.

Expanding the protection market to new audiences is one of the most important challenges facing the industry at present. Owain Thomas meets Marco Forato, who is charged with that task at Unum

My client, Steve, has just asked me to perform an overall review of his protection needs following the start of his new family. He's only 32 and has an existing 10-year-old critical illness policy (25-year term). Should I recommend keeping this for the...