Individual Protection

Shortlists for the UK Health & Protection Awards 2024 provider categories have been revealed after advisers voted to support their favoured providers. The shortlists cover 13 categories spanning the breadth of the...

This Mental Health Awareness Week, Health & Protection features Florence Streames, finance assistant at Velvet Mortgage and Insure Services, who speaks about building a career in protection while coping with severe obsessive...

Mortgage and protection firm Access Financial Services has appointed Jeremy Lock as director of compliance. Lock joins from Absolute Return Investment Advisers (ARIA) where he was head of compliance. Previously, Lock was...

Value added benefits (VABs) as part of critical illness and life insurance cover are helping to ease conversations about mental health and provide vital support, according to research from HSBC Life (UK). ...

The Income Protection Task Force (IPTF) has released a film to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the 7Families project. The 7Families project which ran between 2014 and 2016 followed the lives...

Katy Davies is returning to Hanbury Wealth as a protection adviser. Back in August last year, Health & Protection revealed Davies (pictured) was joining London-based private client firm Henry Dannell as specialist...

Medical advances and effective investment in data has meant Gen Re has been able to cover conditions it traditionally could never consider previously, such as Huntingdon's and cystic fibrosis. Speaking at Health...

HelloSelf, a virtual provider of psychological therapy services, has joined group risk industry body Grid. Tim Fuller, private partnerships lead at HelloSelf, said: “As one of the UK’s largest networks of clinical...

The prospect of AIG's protection cover for British expats disappearing following Aviva's acquisition of its rival insurer is "concerning", according to Andrew Wilkinson, director of Moneysworth. Addressing delegates at Health & Protection's...

The Exeter has seen a 14.1% increase in the amount it paid out in income protection claims in 2023. This is according to the mutual's annual claims data for the year which...