Individual Protection

Anorak has partnered with newly launched online direct to consumer (D2C) life insurance and protection platform Insurancez. The deal sees Insurancez advisers use automated life insurance advice platform Anorak's 'Anorak for Advisors'...

The protection sector's great Paralympics hope Jordanne Whiley has delivered on her dream of winning two medals at Tokyo 2020. Whiley, a mortgage and protection adviser at Hearthstone Mortgages, won her first...

The Income Protection Taskforce (IPTF) is reaching out to Instagram personal finance influencers in the next stage of its campaign to raise income protection awareness and help young consumers aged between 18...

Global insurance group Discovery has allocated a further £155m (R3.1bn) towards Covid-related claims and policy lapses, including almost £20m at its UK-based insurers Vitality Health and Vitality Life. However, despite this further...

Zurich has appointed Caroline Dunn as chief underwriting officer in the UK to lead its underwriting strategy across all lines of business, subject to regulatory approval. Her appointment follows Hayley Robinson’s recent...

Stand-up comedian and television presenter Dara Ó Briain will host the UK Health & Protection Awards 2021. Ó Briain is one of the UK’s favourite entertainers and is best known for hosting...

Keeping the society's promise to pay claims and support tens of thousands of customers is the standout achievement for departing Cirencester Friendly chief executive officer Paul Hudson. This morning the income protection...

Shepherds Friendly has partnered with healthcare provider Nuffield Health to offer a range of additional benefits to its income protection (IP) membership. The three new health and wellbeing benefits from Nuffield are...

US benefits technology platform Benefitfocus has added a number of options from American Public Life Insurance Company (APL) to its offering. Services added include accident cover, critical illness insurance, hospital indemnity, cancer...

Health insurers are closely monitoring the shortage of blood test tubes which has caused NHS England to order doctors to stop all primary care and community testing for three weeks unless it...