Individual Protection

All income protection (IP) insurers should help the growing number of people who survive cancer back into work to reduce future claims, Dr Julie Denning has told Health & Protection. “I would...

A clever combination of protection cover could be the key to closing the protection gap for parents who need to take time off to look after a sick child. This is according...

Millions of working households are vulnerable to even a small disruption to their income, according to Royal London’s latest Financial Resilience report. Interviews with around 4,000 adults led the mutual to conclude...

Eight in 10 people think being honest and open about disclosing a mental health condition will ramp up the cost of health or protection cover. This is according to a report from...

Consistency of sleep could be a stronger predictor of health risk than the number of hours spent in bed, research from Vitality has discovered. Although sleeping for at least seven hours a...

Kicking off the first in a mini-series exploring the former lives of professionals across the protection and health sector, Alan Lakey, director at CIExpert, speaks to Health & Protection about his exploits...

Aviva saw health sales fall by a third in the first half of the year. This is according to the insurer’s H1 2026 results which revealed health new business sales dropped to...

The first part of Health & Protection’s analysis into increasing customer complaints about private medical insurance (PMI) and protection cover revealed myriad factors are at play. This second part looks into possible...

Customer complaints to the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) about protection and private medical insurance (PMI) represent a very small portion of its caseload. But the latest data from the FOS revealed the...

The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) has announced a series of changes aimed at transforming the way it operates to improve its service for consumers and firms. This includes a new registration stage...