Individual Protection

Swiss Re is to split its reinsurance business unit into two divisions - property and casualty (P&C) reinsurance, and life and health (L&H) reinsurance. The reorganisation will be effective from 3 April...

Social media accounts of regulated people and unregulated influencers are an area of "growing concern" for the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), which revealed it has sanctioned "several" social media personalities over the...

Insurers are being praised by advisers for their efforts to support customers suffering with cancer - including one that helped a woman who was forced to have her treatment 2,000 miles away...

The Income Protection Task Force (IPTF) has welcomed The Exeter marketing manager Shaun Ware, Aviva marketing manager Rebecca Lowe, and consultant Monica Garcia to its steering group. The trio join existing members...

The Group for Autism, Insurance, Investment and Neurodiversity (GAIN) has added Aviva as an industry transformer member. By joining Gain, Aviva has pledged to engage, educate, and enable neurodivergent individuals to thrive...

Zurich has engaged with a campaign to create protection products for people suffering with sickle cell and highlighted there are widespread solutions available for carriers, but noted the complexity of the disease...

Sharing NHS data with private companies presents a "remarkable opportunity" to link data with healthcare action but getting buy-in from the public is crucial as they currently do not trust the sector...

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned adverts from two lead generators offering life insurance quotes for being misleading and operating outside their trade. The regulator has put the lead generator sector...

Almost 700,000 people have been suffering with long Covid symptoms for at least two years, according to latest data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The figures for 2 January show...

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) is expecting a fall in adviser numbers across in the first quarter of the year but anticipates this number to stabilise and then gradually grow over the second...