Individual Protection

The cost of the average funeral has gone down in the UK for the first time since at least 2004. This is according to life insurer SunLife's 2022 Cost of Dying Report...

Higher staff departure rates due to the pandemic and increased costs connected to sourcing talent from the EU a year on from Brexit are creating an extremely competitive labour market for insurers....

Zurich has launched standalone critical illness (CI) cover for customers who do not want a product combined with life insurance. It is also widening its Total Permanent Disability (TPD) definition, offering standard...

Almost three quarters (73%) of Aviva individual and group protection customers who have returned a valid annual health check through the insurer's DigiCare+ and DigiCare+ Workplace service over the past year suffer...

Royal London has enhanced its Helping Hand service to include health and wellbeing support for new customers with the add-ons going live for existing customers soon. The enhancements mean customers who purchase...

Naomi Greatorex is to replace Alan Knowles on the Income Protection Task Force's steering committee. Greatorex, the owner of Heath Protection Solutions, joins Richard Walsh, Justin Harper, Mark Jones and Setul Mehta...

This year marks a decade since the implementation of gender neutral rates were enforced on the UK insurance market following the Test Achats case that stopped insurers charging different male and female...

The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) has appointed Jonathan Clark as interim CEO, with immediate effect. Clark is former president of the CII and the Chartered Institute of Loss Adjusters, and was CII...

Aviva chief financial officer Jason Windsor has resigned to join Persimmon as its CFO. Aviva said its search for a new CFO is underway and will issue a further update when appropriate....

The UK's mortality rate has hit its highest levels during the pandemic since World War Two. The country recorded 120,400 more deaths from all causes than expected from the start of the...