Individual Protection

The largest insurance intermediary firms benefitted most in 2021 as revenues in the market grew – but professional indemnity insurance (PII) costs soared by £141m. Revenue from insurance distribution rose 3.9% to...

Legal & General has appointed Stefana Brown to take risk oversight of its UK protection business. Brown is taking on the newly created role of UK protection and fintech chief risk officer...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published a list of 14 firms covering more than 50,000 people who will not be authorised as funeral providers from 29 July. From that date only...

Santé Group launched its fundraising partnership with Heart Research UK with its first annual charity golf day. The intermediary firm is aiming to raise £10,000 for the charity over the next 12...

The Worldwide Broker Network has added Risk Solution Broker (RSB) and Fortius Inter Partes in Croatia and Söderberg & Partners in the Netherlands have joined as members. RSB is an insurance broker...

The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) has pledged to put greater emphasis on members’ professional standards and pilot changes to how assessments and qualifications are delivered. It will also launch an interactive professional...

The Protection Distributors Group (PDG) has revealed the latest list of insurers that meet its best practice claims criteria to become its claims charter signatories. The move follows a review of practices...

HSBC Life UK is launching a digital underwriting solution that will extend cover to more people with pre-existing conditions and consider applications where terms previously were not possible. The solution enables medical...

Guardian has made changes to its mental health underwriting question set and made enhancements related to asthma, diabetes, hypertension and cholesterol. The underwriting changes are aimed at supporting full disclosure and making...

HM Treasury and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) need to take responsibility for solving the problem of the poorest people being locked out of insurance cover, Fair By Design has urged. The...