Individual Protection

More than a third of business owners admit to having no protection in place for their firm in the event they or a key member of staff dies or suffers a severe...

Scottish Widows paid out a total of £207.9 million in protection claims in 2021, up from £206m in 2020. This is according to the insurer's 2021 claims data which revealed it paid...

Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) rules requiring brokers to assess the value other intermediaries in the chain bring can apply equally to international partners as they do domestic ones. This is according to...

All of the challenges faced over a 40 year career as a journalist covering wars, floods and disasters could not prepare Mike McCarthy for 20 February 2021 - the day which changed...

Almost a quarter of Britons (23%) have felt or would feel worried about their finances if they were too ill to go to work and had to call in sick, according to...

PG Mutual has partnered with Validium to launch a wellbeing counselling service to its members and said it has already started to see good use of the services. Validium is part of...

The pandemic, the cost-of-living crisis and the war in Ukraine is adversely affecting the overall wellbeing of the UK population, with ethnic minorities hardest hit, according to the latest findings of the...

Holloway Friendly has revealed its longest ongoing income protection (IP) claim has been in payment for more than 33 years. The figure was published as part of its annual claims details which...

Ensuring financial services rules better meet the interests of the UK following Brexit is one of the key aims of the new financial services bill, the government has said. The government will...

Absolute Military has appointed Johnny Timpson as chairman of its board. Timpson, who has been working with the specialist insurer as an adviser, told Health & Protection the firm's leaders have now...