Individual Protection

The past year saw a “rebalancing” of the market, with individual protection policies sales declining across most product groups. This is according to Jennifer Gilchrist, protection industry affairs manager at Swiss Re,...

Shepherds Friendly has entered into an agreement that will see Primis Mortgage Network distribute the mutual society’s income protection products. Primis has around 3,000 mortgage advisers and more than 1,000 mortgage and...

Half of Britons do not have a plan to pay for their care if they develop dementia, Zurich Life has discovered. Only 10% have critical illness cover, while 7% would rely on...

Critical illness is changing. It is no longer associated with older people and the protection insurance industry is working to face evolving health challenges. Cancer, for example, is on the rise among...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is back on schedule with its pure protection market study, which will now meet the original publication date. Back in December, the regulator announced that the length...

AIA Singapore (AIA) has launched AIA Protect 3, a critical illness (CI) plan covering cancer, heart attack and stroke.  Launching as an exclusive offering for all AIA policyholders – whether insured through...

Single patient records can help guard against customer non-disclosure, but their introduction could also run the risk of insurers rejecting some claims. This is according to advisers Health & Protection spoke to...

Business protection can sometimes feel like a daunting and perhaps technical conversation for some. In reality, many business owners are already talking about the same risks, just in a different language: borrowing,...

CIExpert has reached agreement to provide access to its full suite of tools and resources to advisers across independent financial planning firm Succession Wealth’s specialist divisions. This means all wealth planners, mortgage...

Concern about being diagnosed with a serious illness is growing, but many are uninsured for such a scenario, research from Vitality has discovered. Developing cancer is a concern for 61% of 2,000...