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OneFamily has revealed it will be buying life and critical illness insurer Beagle Street by the end of the year. The mutual said the deal will see it expand its product range...

LV= Financial Services has revealed it has not been contacted by Amazon to partner with it on a protection insurance solution for its newly launched Insurance Store. Allianz-owned LV General Insurance is...

Technology firms are most likely to enter the insurance sector as competition for intermediaries but their mining of vast amounts of customer data could limit access for certain customer groups, the Financial...

Aegon UK has embedded an electronic medical records request into its online protection applications. The insurer said the move will make it quicker and easier for advisers to provide a client's permission...

Dr Jochem Caris, associate medical director at Aviva, speaks to Health & Protection about catching Covid at the start of the pandemic, successfully combining medical and business skills and participating at the...

Protection and health insurance advisers have raised hopes Rishi Sunak's appointment as prime minister will reassure markets and in turn have a positive impact on their sectors. Sunak was appointed PM earlier...

Rishi Sunak will be the next prime minister of the UK. Sunak (pictured) stepped down as chancellor over the summer precipitating a chain of events which led to the resignation of then...

Complaints about protection insurance products have fallen by more than a fifth, but PMI product complaints have risen, according to data from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Health & Protection's analysis of...

Fewer than half (45%) of women can correctly identify all the potential symptoms of breast cancer and almost one in five do not know what to look for at all, according to...

Adviser Robyn Allen has called on insurers to advertise income protection (IP) directly to consumers. Allen, the owner of Robyn Allen Solutions, (pictured) who was taking part in a panel debate on...