Individual Protection

Aviva is expanding its AI underwriting summarisation tool to support individual critical illness (CI) insurance applications.  The move means the insurer will now be able to summarise most individual protection applications where...

The Protection Distributors Group (PDG) has added CoverMyBubble and Omny Benefits as members, while Meg Kirby MBE, founder of charity LegaCare, is to become an ambassador. Emma Astley, founder and adviser at...

UnderwriteMe has launched AI Engine for post-issue audits, an automated misrepresentation detection solution designed to help life insurers dramatically expand audit coverage —without increasing underwriting resource. Post-issue audits are reviews conducted after...

Lianne Jackson has joined National Friendly as business development manager (BDM). Jackson (pictured) joins from Bupa where she had been a BDM since 2024 and will report directly to Gifford Clay, head...

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) saw its protection revenue increase by more than 13% in 2025 to break the £100m mark with sales up 7%. The national mortgage and protection intermediary earned £102.7m...

Advisers need to change their approach if they are to increase membership of income protection (IP) products among younger consumers, according to three industry leaders. Sector representatives noted how the product was...

The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) will undergo a series of significant reforms aimed at returning it to its original purpose of being a “simple, impartial dispute resolution service“. This will include a...

Swiss Re is completing its withdrawal from the IptiQ business. The reinsurer has reached an agreement to sell the Americas business, subject to regulatory approvals, and will run-off the EMEA life and...

LifeSearch is providing Skipton Building Society members with life and wider protection insurance advice. The move comes as the society moves from a single-tie arrangement to a broker model. Skipton’s members will...

Certua Life has entered the UK individual life insurance market with a group offering expected to follow. The company told Health & Protection that it will operate on a non-advised basis and...