Individual Protection

Broadstone has hired Alex McNiven as business protection specialist, joining the consultancy from A-One Insurance Group. He will join Broadstone in its in rapidly growing employee benefits consulting division. McNiven has 17...

Trust is vital when it comes to any insurance product. Consumers need to be confident that the insurance company is a reliable, stable organisation that will be there for them when they...

Aviva is offering Origo’s Unipass Letter of Authority (ULoA) service to support individual protection cases. Letter of Authority requests and responses can now be obtained electronically from the insurer for protection products....

Cirencester Friendly has added a short-term benefit option to its My Earnings Protected income protection (IP) product, responding to demand from advisers and consumers.  It provides cover for up to two years...

SimplyBiz has added additional support for advisers as just six weeks remain until the implementation of the Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) new Consumer Duty. The firm said it has added a series...

Fewer people being able to attend cancer screening appointments contributed to a fall in healthy lives across England during the second year of the pandemic. Latest data from the Office for National...

Sam Long, assistant risk and assurance officer at National Friendly, speaks to Health & Protection about how the financial services sector is less diverse than other industries, but is catching up a...

The 1984 cult classic movie The Terminator painted a picture of a future in which robots were fighting humans for control of the planet and sending back assassins from the future to...

HSBC Life UK is making critical illness (CI) cover available to Type 2 diabetic customers without the need for NHS records. Open to customers applying for cover through its external distribution partners,...

A further 4,000 people have joined the ranks of people who are economically inactive due to long term sickness in the UK over April. Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS)...