West Yorkshire: 5,200 police days lost to sickness

Human bite injuries were partly to blame for police in West Yorkshire taking more than 5,000 days off sick following accidents or attacks in the last two years.

Health and safety statistics show officers missed a total of 5,237 working days in 2010-11 and 2011-12 for reasons other than illness.

They included 69 days taken off following bite injuries – relating to 118 incidents recorded in the last two years.

Figures given to the YEP show that, of the 62 recorded biting incidents last year, one in five was from a human.

Twenty were dog bites, six were from insects and two were from horses. One of the bites was from a cat.

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Protection is still a vital part of financial planning

There has been much debate over the future of accident, sickness and unemployment cover following the various misselling issues and resultant Competition Commission and Office of Fair Trading Reviews.

We are told that advisers are supposedly running scared of selling this type of cover but it is becoming clear that the prophets of doom are over-exaggerating the issue and needlessly deterring advisers from considering this important area of client cover.

The recent report from Defaqto entitled, Opportunities in Protection Post-PPI, confirmed what many of us in the industry have been saying for some time – that there is still a real customer need and that income protection cover must remain a core focus of the financial planning process.


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