Personal Finance Society (PFS) interim chief executive Don MacIntyre has emphasised that the Chartered Insurance Institute's (CII) controversial takeover is “clearly doing damage” to both bodies, while members have said they have...
Read moreVoting for the Health & Protection International PMI Provider Service Ratings 2023 is open and we want to hear from intermediaries around the world. You can vote to recognise those IPMI insurers...
Read moreVitality has launched a direct to consumer ActiveLife product and is also unveiling enhancements to its advised protection offering next month. It said a life launch planned for 9 February "where enhancements...
Read moreThe protection sector is bracing itself for a year in which customers will be less inclined to take out cover when arranging their mortgage as cost of living and inflationary pressures persist....
Read moreMetLife paid 19,102 protection claims worth a total of £16.7m last year and has promised a pipeline of new products for 2023. The claims figure is up 15% from 2021 when 16,652...
Read moreFirms' target markets are always likely to include vulnerable people so the Consumer Duty requires them to consider whether their products have features that risk harm to all customers - including those...
Read moreParents are more likely to be worried about money and the risk of being unable to work through serious illness or injury than those without dependents, but the vast majority have failed...
Read moreHealth & Protection has learned of two further departures from William Russell, but the international private medical insurance (IPMI) provider said there has not been a major restructure at the firm. Yesterday...
Read moreHealth & Protection is launching its first Health Summit for advisers and intermediaries working in the UK private medical and health insurance sector. The Summit is the sector’s leading event where key...
Read moreJoanna Streames, managing director at Velvet, tells Health & Protection about how Sir Alan Sugar's boardroom reality show was integral to her entry into the protection sector. Almost thirteen years ago,...
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