Individual Protection

The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) expects to freeze individual case fees and its compulsory jurisdiction levy in the coming financial year. The regulator also intends to cut its voluntary jurisdiction levy for...

The third in our series of profiles with Health & Protection Awards 2022 winners, Rob Saunders, CEO of ActiveQuote, speaks about soaring demand for individual PMI, insurers adapting their propositions to younger...

Zurich has joined CIExpert's policy information hub Insight Zone. The hub expands the existing comparison service offer a broader perspective on an insurer's policy propositions.   Zurich joins other six other insurers...

LV= more than doubled trading profit from its protection business in 2022 with new protection sales rising 8% on the previous year. The mutual completed new sales of £42m in regular premium...

Shepherds Friendly has corrected the value of income protection (IP) claims it paid in 2022, confirming it paid £2.25m in benefits to policyholders. The mutual previously told Health & Protection that it...

Aviva has launched a cost of living support scheme allowing existing individual protection customers to cut the value of their cover. However policyholders will need to answer medical questions later if they...

Legal & General Retail has made a series of updates to its critical illness (CI) proposition including increased payments for terminal illness and children's CI claims. Guaranteed insurability options (GIOs) have also...

Guardian is launching its first income protection (IP) product with a roll out set for the coming weeks. The product will be available to all advisers using IRESS, IPipeline and LifeQuote product...

Advisers should complain to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) if they do not receive target market data from insurers as required under Consumer Duty information sharing requirements. This is according to FCA...

Spiralling inflation and energy costs have combined to create a cost of living crisis in which some people have been left with a choice between eating and heating. As a result, some...