Individual Protection
The Right Mortgage appoints PMI supervision and development manager
The Right Mortgage & Protection Network and DA Club has appointed Bipin Sandhu as private medical insurance (PMI) supervision and development manager. Sandhu starts her role with immediate effect and will be...
Read more‘Every time I get an Aviva letter with the Mx title, it makes my day’ – Thomas
Jordan Thomas, co-chair of Aviva Pride and junior product designer at Aviva, speaks to Health & Protection about experiencing the sector as a queer person, working in a pleasant and warm workplace...
Read moreIndustry leaders encourage advisers to act as ‘protection ambassadors’
The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI), Protection Distributors Group (PDG) and the Income Protection Taskforce (IPTF) are to explore ways of encouraging more advisers who have claimed on a critical illness (CI)...
Read more“I think, like my mum, society has embraced diversity” – Thomas
Richard Thomas, a business-to-business events manager at Legal & General Retail, speaks to Health & Protection about how attitudes have changed over the years to the point where colleagues have become natural...
Read moreSimplyBiz appoints business development quality manager from AIG Life
SimplyBiz has appointed Kelly Phillips to the newly created role of business development quality manager. Phillips joins from AIG Life where she was sales quality account manager. She was also previously a...
Read more‘He just put his hand on mine, a small gesture but terribly comforting’ – Sir Terry Waite
The small gesture of a fellow hostage silently putting their hand on his was "terribly comforting" during his four years in captivity, according to Sir Terry Waite. Participating in Protection Review's ProtectX7...
Read moreProvider adverts featuring celebrities who do not believe in protection is “complete waste of time and money” – Brown
Providers pumping money into adverts featuring celebrities who do not believe in protection cover is a "complete waste of time and money", according to Nina Brown, protection adviser at Pam Brown Mortgages....
Read moreIPTF guide to improving claims outcomes for self-employed clients
The Income Protection Task Force (IPTF) has produced a new guide to help advisers with self-employed clients through the duration of their IP policy to make the most of their policy and...
Read morePure protection sales slide amid decline in advised CI sales with mortgage protection
The number of pure protection sales marginally decreased over the past year amid a decline in advised critical illness sales sold with mortgage protection. This is according to the Financial Conduct Authority’s...
Read moreFCA expects firms to monitor Consumer Duty outcomes from day one
While firms' Consumer Duty processes do not have to be "perfect" from day one, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) does expect them to have the capability to monitor outcomes from the day...
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