Individual Protection

While mortality rates in England and Wales were 3% higher last year than before the pandemic, they were lower than 2020, 2021 and 2022. This is according to the Continuous Mortality Investigation...

Advisers remain bullish about business prospects for 2024 despite an increase in the rate of inflation. At the end of last year advisers told Health & Protection they were optimistic about prospects...

Max Life Insurance has expanded its presence in the Middle East with the opening of its first representative office in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). The Indian life insurer said the office...

Grid has appointed Legal & General distribution director of group protection Colin Fitzgerald as chairman. He succeeds Paul White whose three-year tenure has come to an end. Fitzgerald's career in the employee...

UK mortgage and insurance network Stonebridge has welcomed mortgage and protection adviser Windsor Hill Mortgages, back to the network after leaving in January 2023 as one of its latest appointed representative (AR)...

The Chartered Insurance Institute has appointed Matthew Hill as CEO. Hill (pictured) is the current CEO of the Legal Services Board, a position he has held since August 2019. His background also...

The Income Protection Task Force (IPTF) has announced that Matthew Chapman, The Protection Coach and Lewis Breach from St James Place will join its steering committee. Effective from 1 January 2024, the...

Sesame Bankhall Group has appointed Steph Charman as group partnerships and propositions director. Charman, previously strategic relationships director, is expanding her responsibilities following Craig Ross' move to Quilter where he has been...

Canada Life has partnered with behavioural psychology specialist We are IB to create HumanSense - an e-learning programme designed to help financial advisers understand the behavioural bias in financial advice.  The programme...

Carrie Dobson, sales leader, protection team at Howden Life and Health (previously Assured Futures), speaks to Health & Protection about leaving bar work for the world of protection, taking inspiration from her...