In this week's Expert Opinion, Kevin Paterson discusses the IPT stealth tax, new landlord regulations, and the Zurich takeover bid.

Almost one third (32%) of UK adults have experienced a serious financial shock in the past five years such as losing their job or being unable to work due to injury - but only a third...

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...