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The Protection Distributors Group (PDG) has added three new members to its ranks. Caspian Insurance Services and Pure Protect join as organisational members, with former Cabinet Office disability and access ambassador for...

The Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) fair value product rules have come into force today. The rules ensure that general insurance products, including health and protection policies, must be assessed to ensure they...

Networking events, sharing best practice and help with recruitment for candidates and companies are some of the ways insurance industry group Gain intends to unlock the potential of neurodivergent talent in the...

Sian Fisher is to step down as CEO of the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) after more than six years at the helm of the professional body. Fisher (pictured) will complete her six-month...

Advisers should avoid a 'one-size fits all' approach when communicating with clients, according to Rose St Louis, protection director at Scottish Widows. St Louis spoke to Health & Protection following the release...

Guardian is offering cashback worth two months' of premiums for all critical illness (CI) applications made within the next two months. Clients who apply for the insurer's CI protection or combined life...

The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) proposed consumer duty means advisers can no longer avoid having conversations about protection, but they should treat incoming regulations as a positive intervention in client conversations, according...

Lifepoint Healthcare has acquired the the private medical insurance and health cash plan portfolio of Leicestershire-based firm Protect Your Health UK. Isaac Feiner, managing director at Lifepoint Healthcare, said the business was...

UnderwriteMe has launched a pre-sales underwriting enquiry service within its protection platform. The service, which reduces the amount of client information an adviser needs to key in, enables advisers to secure quicker...

Bermudian reinsurance platform Resolution Re has entered into a reinsurance agreement with Allianz Suisse over CHF4bn worth of endowment and annuity policies. The agreement transfers 80% of the liabilities of Allianz Suisse’s...