Individual Protection

UK businesses will be urged to tackle in-work sickness and stop people from falling out the workforce, following the appointment of Dame Carol Black as the government’s new occupational health tsar. Black,...

SimplyBiz has launched MyLearning Academy, an online learning portal developed in partnership with Competent Adviser. The academy, available from today (21 February) to all SimplyBiz member firms, offers support on a range...

An unnamed insurer has come in for praise from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for highlighting policy exclusions on its website before customers even begin to start applications. In its Consumer Duty...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has praised insurers for improving propositions to offer new health and wellbeing benefits and widening policy definitions to cover more customers. In its Consumer Duty implementation: good...

German insurtech Embea has raised €4m to expand its pan-European embedded life insurance platform and add new insurance products to its portfolio. The funding round was led by Atlantic Labs, a Berlin-based...

The Personal Finance Society (PFS) has launched a competency diagnostic tool to identify key areas of training needs to ensure adviser compliance with Consumer Duty. Proficiency+ Consumer Duty was developed in collaboration...

Mercer is bringing health and protection insurers together for a second session with the aim of improving clarity and reporting of environmental, social and governance (ESG) credentials in the sector. Last year...

The government has given financial and health sector regulators an April deadline to put forward their strategies for the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in their sectors. It told the Financial Conduct...

AIG Life has formally confirmed that its underwriting and claims payment approach has not changed after adopting Association of British Insurers (ABI) minimum wordings requirement for its heart attack definition on critical...

Week three on The Apprentice saw a virtual Lord Sugar set the teams the challenge of developing a virtual escape room concept and playable demo and pitching their creations to investors. After...