Individual Protection

The Income Protection Task Force (IPTF) has launched Let’s Talk IP, a podcast series hosted by Matthew Chapman. The podcast, set for two episodes a month, will see Chapman speak to industry...

Legal & General Retail has appointed Georgia Perkins as protection market development manager. Perkins joins from HSBC where she was a business development manager. Before that was a protection consultant at Aegon....

The next 12 months could be very significant for the mutual sector. All polls currently point to a Labour victory at the next general election, whenever it might be called. It has...

LifeSearch has joined forces with car insurance broker 1st Central in a collaborative ‘test and learn’ partnership to explore new ways of introducing life insurance protection to 1st Central’s customers. Running initially...

LV= reported a slight increase in protection sales in 2023 with regular new business premiums up 2% to £43m, from £42m the previous year. It said these sales generated £14m of trading...

Week 8 on The Apprentice saw the teams tasked with designing an advertising campaign for an electric vehicle. Protection adviser Raj Chohan's team took on a camper van, with Dr Paul Midha...

Critical illness is suffering from an identity crisis, with consumer trust lacking, according to Paul Roberts, proposition and distribution director at CIExpert. Referring to findings from the CI Expert's Critical Thinking 2024...

Aviva paid out a record £1.18bn across individual life insurance, critical illness cover, income protection and other protection policies in 2023. This insurer said this was the highest annual amount it has...

The Income Protection Task Force (IPTF) has unveiled the second batch of advisers taking part in its adviser focused campaign, 7 Advisers. The seven advisers set to be introduced by IPTF on...

The role of protection underwriting is not to catch agents or customers out, but to understand any inconsistencies in their NHS records and to improve confidence in these products. The ultimate aim...