Individual Protection

Luke McKeown, senior product governance consultant at Royal London, speaks to Health & Protection about remaining continued bias perceptions, genuine change taking hold in tackling unconscious bias and why the sector needs...

Wellbeing sentiment across the UK is slowly improving but inflation and the rising costs of everyday items are continuing to be significant causes for concern. According to LV=’s latest quarterly research, which...

Holloway Friendly has appointed Ben Pears as its new chief executive officer (CEO) to begin on 24 June, replacing Stuart Tragheim.  Pears (pictured) joins from Unity Mutual where he was insurance director...

More than £1.4bn was collected in Insurance Premium Tax (IPT) in May as receipts continued their long-term rise.   A total of £1.431bn was collected in IPT last month compared to £615m...

Aviva is closing almost all AIG Life products to new business this summer, with any new quotes needing to be submitted before 16 August and subsequent applications given a further 30 days...

Families choosing not to have children are less likely to have protection cover despite being less financially engaged, according to research from Legal & General. Its survey of 2,000 adults found UK...

Social media, and particularly TikTok, is a great tool to engage Gen Z (young people born between 1997 and 2012) but providers need to be careful that posts about protection do not...

LV= has given advisers a series of recommendations on how they can help avoid their clients’ claims being declined due to misrepresentation. In 2023, the mutual paid out 94% of protection claims,...

Guardian has increased the amount it will pay when a policyholder is diagnosed with a condition that meets one of its additional pay out definitions from 25% to 50% of the cover...

Protection insurance provider Best Insurance has launched an AI-driven underwriting solution which aims to provide more personalised quotes. Incomeadora, supported by Collinson Insurance (a part of Astrenska Insurance), is a-new quote-and-buy platform...