Individual Protection

Legal & General is combining its protection product and commercial teams under the leadership of James Shattock, commercial director retail protection at Legal & General Retail. The move also sees Mark Jones,...

The UK Health & Protection Awards 2023 has launched and is now open for adviser entries. Health & Protection would like to welcome back Allianz Partners as returning headline sponsor. This year’s...

Personal Finance Society (PFS) interim chief executive Don MacIntyre has emphasised that the Chartered Insurance Institute's (CII) controversial takeover is “clearly doing damage” to both bodies, while members have said they have...

Vitality has launched a direct to consumer ActiveLife product and is also unveiling enhancements to its advised protection offering next month. It said a life launch planned for 9 February "where enhancements...

Life insurers will target technology development to increase customer loyalty and engage customers while giving advisers real time data on clients to provide a better service, according to Capgemini. The IT services...

More than three in 10 Brits have failed make any provision to pay for their own funeral while the average cost of dying is now over £9,000, according to new research. Encouraginly...

The protection sector is bracing itself for a year in which customers will be less inclined to take out cover when arranging their mortgage as cost of living and inflationary pressures persist....

MetLife paid 19,102 protection claims worth a total of £16.7m last year and has promised a pipeline of new products for 2023. The claims figure is up 15% from 2021 when 16,652...

Mortgage and protection adviser Tembo has appointed Jenny Watts as board chairwoman. Watts (pictured) has acted as a strategic adviser to the tech-focused mortgage and protection intermediary since the summer of 2021....

The Exeter has appointed former Legal & General General Insurance operations director Claire Hird as customer service director. Hird (pictured) joined the mutual this month and will oversee the underwriting, claims, and...