Individual Protection

Owl Financial, The Openwork Partnership’s protection advice business, has improved its gender balance and recruited more than 165 advisers in the first half of this year. The firm said a major focus...

Legal & General has introduced two optional protection benefits for customers available exclusively through intermediaries – fracture cover and private diagnostics. Both can be purchased as an add-on when taking out one...

New Zealand life insurer Fidelity Life has appointed Bronwyn Kirwan as its new chief sales and service officer. Kirwan, who most recently has been leading Swiss Re-owned insurer IptiQ, has held distribution...

Financial adviser Jordanne Whiley won the Wimbledon women’s doubles wheelchair title on Sunday – her fifth time claiming the trophy. However, the mortgage and protection adviser at Hearthstone Mortgages was back at...

Professional indemnity insurance (PII) provider Beazley has appointed Troy Dehmann as chief operating officer with immediate effect. Dehmann (pictured) has more than 20 years of leadership experience in finance, operations and business...

The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) has teamed up with the Southampton Data Science Academy (SDSA) to develop a course aimed at helping insurance professionals meet data and artificial intelligence (AI) challenges head...

Health and protection insurer The Exeter has launched Income First combining its Income One and Pure Protection products. The insurer said the new product is designed to simplify the income protection journey,...

MetLife claims data has revealed a startling increase in claims for accidents such as fractures compared to pre-Covid levels. Last month in an interview with head of individual protection Rich Horner, Health...

Insurers have offered staff a late kick off this morning following yesterday's Euros final at Wembley Stadium. Ahead of the Euro 2020 final match between England and Italy, Health & Protection contacted...

Sri Lankan life insurer Softlogic Life Insurance has appointed Sanjaya Mohottala (pictured right) and Lalith Withana (pictured left) to its board as independent non-executive directors. The pair succeed outgoing directors Ray Abeywardena...