Individual Protection

The shortlists for the UK Health & Protection Awards 2023 adviser categories have now been revealed. The shortlists cover 14 categories spanning the breadth of the health and protection insurance industry. Finalists...

HSBC Life UK has opened its value-added benefits to new customers who apply for protection cover via external distribution partners. The offer also extends to existing protection customers who bought their policy...

The Protection Distributors Group (PDG) has added SPF Private Clients, New Leaf Distribution and Mortgageforce as new member firms. Established in 2016, the PDG was set up as a group of protection...

SimplyBiz has launched a support programme to help appointed representatives (ARs) and principal firms get to grips with the recent changes made to the AR regime by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)....

Axa has appointed Gordon Watson as non-executive chairman for Axa Asia. Watson will transfer over from his current role of CEO of Axa Asia and Africa on 1 July. He will continue...

Insurance provider Sagicor Group Jamaica is now the largest company on the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE), having displaced a local financial group that had been at the top for more than a...

Bluezone's launch of life insurance cover for customers with Type 2 diabetes will be the first of a portfolio of policies aimed at helping people with chronic health conditions in the UK...

Mortgage 1st has completed a deal to acquire fellow Derbyshire-based adviser Peak Mortgages & Protection. This is the first acquisition by the Chesterfield-based mortgage and protection adviser and one that will see...

The proliferation of mobile devices tracking how people move has underwriters eager to tap this data for risk assessment. Wearables data has the potential to accelerate applications and inspire new products, but...

To kick off Pride Month, Amy Potter, protection team manager at London & Country, spoke to Health & Protection about feeling initially lost in a predominantly male and heterosexual industry, her delight...