Individual Protection

The health and protection industry needs to make a "really, really" clear case that long-called for tax breaks will deliver increased take-up of cover and will not hurt the exchequer. This is...

The insurance sector has been challenged to show greater leadership in demonstrating the value that brokers bring to designing commissions and on policing non-financial misconduct and promoting healthy work cultures. The challenge...

The chairman of the Protection Distributor’s Group (PDG) has told Health & Protection delays in insurer claims turnaround times are unfair to claimants. His comments come in the wake of a halving...

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...