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Individual protection insurance sales in the UK increased by 6.3% in 2021 - indicating a rebound for the market following a tough year in 2020, according to Swiss Re’s latest Term &...

Aviva and Legal & General saw significant rises in protection product sales last year to dominate the market as it continued its recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic. The duo accumulated more than...

IPipeline is launching cloud-based hosted authoring services from its SSG Digital platform. The firm says this move to the cloud will benefit insurers by allowing them to make changes to their platform...

  Bupa has launched a new bitesize academy module on Supporting employees through the Menopause: a guide for managers, as part of the Bupa Academy for workplace health and wellbeing. Women over...

Customers are talking about the cost of living crisis more when discussing protection so any help government can provide is to be welcomed, advisers told Health & Protection. Chancellor Rishi Sunak yesterday...

Bupa UK is expanding coverage on its group dental insurance products including faster oral cancer treatment, an additional higher level of benefit, and hospital dental treatment. The upgrades will be available to...

Almost two thirds of UK adults who received financial advice remotely during the pandemic want to continue doing so, according to LV=. Virtual GP appointments were also fairly well regarded, though not...

Insurers, distributors and other financial services providers have been warned by the industry watchdog to ask themselves if products with Covid exclusions or other significant restrictions offer customers fair value. And the...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has told insurers they should be examining the amount of commission paid as part of the distribution process when complying with the incoming Consumer Duty. The issue...

The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) has reassured firms that it will not apply the incoming Consumer Duty rules retrospectively. This is according to Simon Rawle, ombudsman leader at the FOS who was...