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The Income Protection Task Force (IPTF) has released the first story and video in its recently announced 7Claims initiative. Guiding a Client Through a Storm is designed to showcase the vital role...

  Income protection is vital for proper financial planning according to Rose St Louis, protection director of Scottish Widows in an interview with Health & Protection.  In the first part of a...

William Russell has revamped its group life offering. Designed for companies, institutions and organisations of all sizes, the new international group life insurance plan offers several key changes. These include an increase...

SM Advice has launched a multilingual social media content service. The offering enables advisers and firms, to effectively engage with the UK’s diverse communities by creating, branding, and posting social media content...

There is still time to register for Health & Protection’s upcoming Protection Forum. The event is taking place on 12 March at Ham Yard Hotel in Central London and is free to...

Financial firms are not doing enough to monitor outcomes for vulnerable customers, the FCA has warned in its Vulnerability Review, published today.   The FCA said: "What we have seen indicates that...

Most vulnerable customers do not feel comfortable about talking to their financial service providers about their situation, according to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in its Vulnerability Review, published today.  The FCA...

Former PIB Employee Benefits head of protection Wes McCranor (pictured) has launched a protection advisory firm, Sphere Assured for individual and group clients. Sphere Assured specialises in insurance solutions for SMEs, mergers...

Royal London completed £27m of protection sales in 2024 - up  by 11% on the previous year, according to its full year financial results. The mutual’s financial results for the year 31...

Two-thirds (65%) of single mums have no protection insurance at all, even though women run a greater risk of financial insecurity than men, according to exclusive research from Scottish Widows shared with...