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Legal & General Retail has made a series of updates to its critical illness (CI) proposition including increased payments for terminal illness and children's CI claims. Guaranteed insurability options (GIOs) have also...

Guardian is launching its first income protection (IP) product with a roll out set for the coming weeks. The product will be available to all advisers using IRESS, IPipeline and LifeQuote product...

Advisers should complain to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) if they do not receive target market data from insurers as required under Consumer Duty information sharing requirements. This is according to FCA...

Spiralling inflation and energy costs have combined to create a cost of living crisis in which some people have been left with a choice between eating and heating. As a result, some...

British Friendly paid 90% of new income protection (IP) claims in 2022 and just over £5m to its members in income protection and discretionary BF Care claims. British Friendly paid 1,193 claims...

Unum UK paid a total of £395m in claims in 2022, up £29m on 2021, with around £216m of the total being for group income protection (GIP). However it warned that the...

Abbie Marlow, client manager at Swiss Re, speaks to Health & Protection about trying to find a vocation which would make use of analytical skills gained at university, not giving up on...

As suicides, drug and alcohol-related deaths increase among the middle aged, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has revealed it is analysing data around barriers to accessing mental health services. Presenting the...

The past 25 years have seen protection insurance evolve into a substantial specialist field that is inarguably a key cornerstone of any financial plan, according to LifeSearch chairman Tom Baigrie. But Baigrie...

Legal & General has joined professional body the Consumer Duty Alliance (CDA) which launched on 9 March. The body has been established with the aim of promoting good practice, delivering better client...