Individual Protection

Insurers are working at guarding against the risk of excessive price increases for certain customers due to the sector's move to increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in risk assessments. This is...

Axa Health has appointed Heather Smith as chief executive officer (CEO). Smith (pictured) joins from Allianz where she is currently MD for retail responsible for providing personal lines insurance to 3.7 million...

Vitality paid £96m in protection claims in 2022. Publishing its life claims statistics for the year, the insurer revealed it paid out 96.6% of all protection claims - equating to a total...

Guardian is to now consider applicants with HIV for income protection. The commitment comes amid a series of changes to the firm's underwriting aimed at ensuring more customers living with HIV can...

Legal & General has launched an online claim submission facility following a successful pilot over the summer. Available through Legal & General’s protection self-serve portal, My Account, the new feature empowers policyholders...

Six in 10 Brits are concerned about the cost of care should they be diagnosed with dementia. This is according to VitalityLife's research of 2,000 people uncovering a worrying gap between the...

Tembo has launched an AI-driven protection criteria tool. The tool is context aware which means when a user has a conversation with it, it will consider all previous questions and its previous...

With the cost-of-living crisis showing no signs of abating and more people on a tighter budget than usual, advisers and their clients will be looking for ways of making protection cover more...

Almost half a million people have now joined the ranks of economically inactive due to long-term sickness. While June data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) indicated a new record of...

Government has unveiled a national strategy aimed at rapidly reducing England's suicide rate. The National Suicide Prevention Strategy commits to reducing England’s suicide rate within two and a half years of launch....