Covid-19

Generali Global Assistance is to support upcoming smart vaccination and digital health pass initiatives by adding custom options to its travel insurance offerings. The travel insurance provider revealed the group and its...

UK employers should consider taking out health or income protection insurance due to the growing threat posed by long Covid. This is the warning from leading law firm Irwin Mitchell in light...

Axa Health is introducing a new service to help support customers affected by long Covid.  Latest statistics suggest one in five people who’ve tested positive for Covid-19 still have symptoms more than...

Aviva has sold its Aviva Poland business to Allianz for £2.1bn, as it continues its process of offloading overseas operations to focus on its core UK, Ireland and Canada businesses. The deal...

Royal London has paid out £13.1m in Covid-related claims since the start of the pandemic.  The insurer published these figures after industry-wide data showed that the industry as a whole has paid...

LV= has paid out over £12m in Covid-relating claims to date, supporting more than 1,400 policyholders and their families. This covers life insurance, critical illness and income protection claims. The first Covid-related...

Bupa is rebating £125m to its UK health insurance customers following the temporary disruption to some medical treatments last year as are result of the pandemic. The rebate equates to roughly one...

Almost 900 dependants received pay-outs following Covid-related deaths of workers covered by group life in the period to the end of 2020, says Group Risk Development. Pay outs to this group of...

Individual income protection provider Cirencester Friendly has paid 94 per cent of claims in 2020, 15 per cent of which were for Covid-related conditions. The pay-out rate means the provider has maintained its 10-year...

The Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced that a string of tax allowances will be frozen until 2026, although a larger-than-expected increase to corporation tax will not happen until 2023.  Giving his second...