Individual Protection

The short term effects of weight loss drugs are overwhelmingly positive. But protection insurance underwriters are alive to the risks posed by unsustainable weight loss. This is according to Carl Heard, national...

Going the extra mile for a young mother who had disclosed that she attempted suicide in the past helped her secure income protection cover. This is according to Nicola Huxley, director at...

Accident, sickness and unemployment (ASU) cover has an unfairly tarnished reputation, but evolving product design means it now has the capacity to meet all of a client's needs. This is according to...

Velvet Mortgage and Insure Services helps clients understand their added value services by laying them all out in an easily accessible spreadsheet. This is according to Bella Streames, MD at Velvet Mortgage...

Marta Scott-Manuszewska, director at Five Star Mortgages (pictured), has revealed that simply sitting down with her client to conduct a mortgage review meant that her Polish client could access mental healthcare through...

Keith Richards, CEO of the Consumer Duty Alliance, has revealed that he once signed off on a 75 page suitability report. But he added that Consumer Duty holds the key to cutting...

Vietnamese financial technology group MoMo and Chubb Life Insurance Vietnam Co have launched Critical Illness Insurance+, a digital critical illness insurance solution now available through the MoMo App. Critical Illness Insurance+ is...

A customer once told Rhys Schofield, founder of Peak Mortgages and Protection, that they did not want their policy to start because Mars was in retrograde. On the second day of Income...

Aviva has told Health & Protection it is actively seeking to improve turnaround times for protection applications for underwriting requiring a GP report. It added that targeted interventions and additional resourcing was...

Advisers need to stop selling short term income protection (IP) plans as the default option as the average length of an IP claim lasts longer than the shortest plan on the market....