Individual Protection

UnderwriteMe has agreed a strategic partnership with Inuvi, a provider of medical examinations and health services to the insurance industry. The product works by automating many of the manual processes that currently...

AIG Life marketing director Sue Helmont has retired after almost four decades in the industry. Earlier in her career, Helmont was a corporate communications manager at Aviva in 2005 where she worked...

The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) is introducing the proactively settled category to the way it processes cases to encourage firms to solve complaints more quickly. The regulator confirmed the move will be...

Guardian's first income protection product has now gone now live on Iress, IPipeline and LifeQuote sourcing systems. From 3 April, advisers using these sourcing platforms have access to a full menu of...

To mark National Stress Awareness Month which kicks off tomorrow, Health & Protection spoke to an array of advisers and found music, meditation, martial arts and painting - of canvasses and orks...

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...