L&G launches income protection adviser hub

The new hub follows a series of improvements to its income protection offering including sick pay alignment for NHS workers, a free rehabilitation support service and reduced pricing across all occupation classes.

Craig Brown, director at Legal & General Intermediary, commented: “While critical illness cover and life insurance are often the first protection solutions we talk about as an industry, for many customers IP can play a no less important role.

"Our Deadline to Breadline report found that nearly a third of employees didn’t have any financial back-up plans in place. Income protection could provide a monthly benefit should the client be unable to work due to incapacity caused by illness or injury resulting in a loss of earnings.

"Intermediaries already do a great job of protecting their clients and these changes are designed to help make that process simpler and more effective.”