Individual Protection

Amy Pougher, senior client servicing manager at Reassured, speaks to Health & Protection about starting off her career as a chaser in processing, overcoming Imposter Syndrome, her penchant for marathon running and...

The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI), Protection Distributors Group (PDG) and Income Protection Taskforce (IPTF) have launched a new version of their adviser guide to saving protection policy sales, acknowledging the difficult...

SimplyBiz has partnered with group risk provider YuLife. YuLife work with SimplyBiz to deliver relevant messages on market trends, product development, evolving technology in the protection space and delivering good outcomes for...

Insurance broker Reassured has launched a digital platform enabling customers to directly purchase life insurance online, with critical illness products planned to follow. Reassured is primarily a non-advised broker and six insurers...

Lead generation firm CleverKeith has been reprimanded for an advert which appeared to depict life insurance as a moneymaking scheme and for implying it was an advice firm which could get consumers...

Compliance consultant Branko Bjelobaba has raised concerns about difficulties health and protection insurance intermediaries face in budgeting for the Financial Compensation Schemes Levy (FSCS) following the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) launching its...

Howden has acquired mortgage advice firm SPF Private Clients. The purchase solidifies a "long-established trading relationship" between the firms. The international insurance broker said the deal extended its reach into the mortgage...

Difficulty accessing public sector mental health support is driving growth in the mental health and wellbeing app market, according to protection and health advisers - but there are conerns about their quality....

The Exeter paid out 4% more in income protection (IP) claims in 2021 despite a 31% drop in volumes driven by a decline in Covid claims. The protection and health insurer's IP...

A free online hub which reconnects consumers with their lost and dormant accounts including life insurance, pensions and investments, has gone live today. The Gretel hub claims to reconnect consumers with lost...