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Aegon UK has become the latest insurer to remove most of its Covid underwriting restrictions for life and critical illness protection. The protection provider revealed it has now returned to its pre-pandemic...

As Pride month draws to a close, Health & Protection interviews Nigel Ranger, a senior customer service advisor at MetLife, about evolving attitudes towards LGBTQ+ communities working in the protection sector. How...

National Friendly has appointed Graham Singleton as CEO. Singleton, who joined the Bristol-based health and protection specialist insurer at the end of 2019 before taking on the interim CEO role following the...

To mark Pride month, Health & Protection interviews Shaun White, senior manager of partnerships at life insurer OneFamily, about issues with bringing his whole self to work as a gay man working in the...

The number of pure protection sales has increased over the past year led by a huge increase in standalone critical illness sales. This is according to the Financial Conduct Authority's Product Sales...

Life insurance intermediary LifeSearch has appointed Debbie Kennedy as chief executive, in a role Kennedy described as the 'opportunity of a lifetime'. Kennedy, who succeeds LifeSearch founder Tom Baigrie in her new...

The Protection Distributors Group (PDG) has appointed Emma Thomson to its board. Thomson, a founding member and former chair of the PDG, returns to the board as she takes up her new...

Young adults are the most likely to have considered or taken out life insurance policies since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to research. The survey of 2002 UK adults conducted...

Protection industry representatives Johnny Timpson and Kevin Carr were among the winners recognised at the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII)’s Public Trust Awards today. Industry stalwart and independent consultant Timpson (pictured) picked up...

The UK may be home to twice the number of long Covid sufferers than first feared, with research suggesting the figure could be as high as two million. The Imperial College London-led...