Individual Protection

The Income Protection Task Force (IPTF) is to launch Income Protection Awareness Week - an awareness campaign supported by events running from the 20 – 24 September. The campaign is aimed at...

Resolution Life has appointed Nardeep Sangha as CEO new markets with responsiblity for sourcing new opportunities in reinsurance and life, particularly focusing on new risk markets and broader geographies including Asia and...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is proposing a climate-related financial disclosure regime to increase transparency and “enable clients and consumers to make considered choices”. The move is the latest step in the...

LV= has revealed the details behind two claims it declined to illustrate to advisers the importance of ensuring their clients take cover when healthy and fully divulging any conditions at application. The...

AIG Life has today removed the last of its individual protection Covid underwriting restrictions and returned its criteria to pre-pandemic levels for all but the largest sums assured. While AIG's UK life...

National regulations are making it harder for smaller firms to expand their business into more international private medical insurance (IPMI) markets. In addressing delegates at the Health Compass Transforming the Transaction in...

Advisers need to embrace technology or face dying out, according to Lourdes Peters, president and CEO of independent benefit advisory insurance brokers World of America. According to Peters, who was addressing delegates...

LV= has revealed it paid more than £15.6m in cancer-related claims during the first five months of the year but is expecting that to rise sharply during the second half of 2021....

The protection sector needs to do more to promote the industry as a rewarding career destination to the next generation of advisers as early as possible. This is according to Naomi Greatorex,...

Health technology products provided by insurers need to focus on nutrition as well as fitness, according to Tim Smith, head of protection at Hannover Re. Smith was responding to a question raised...