Individual Protection

Aviva has made a series of changes to its individual protection underwriting process including increasing its medical evidence age and sum assured thresholds and relaxing its Covid policy. On individual income protection...

Royal London has made changes to its critical illness cover (CIC) in a bid to pay more protection claims. Under the changes the mutual insurer has added two new definitions that pay...

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) is adding the full LV= flexible protection plan range of products and options to its protection panel. LV='s income protection plans have been available to MAB advisers since...

Munich Re has announced it will not renew existing contracts in Russia and Belarus and has suspended all new business. The group added it will do the same with its investments in...

PG Mutual has partnered with Blue Light Card to offer healthcare workers and their families a 20% discount off their first two years’ premiums for its Income Protection Plus insurance. The product...

Female advisers' place greater emphasis on successful relationship building with client families than their male counterparts, according to research from the Embark Group. The group's latest Investor Confidence Barometer survey of 251...

Following a successful pilot, Paradigm Protect, part of Paradigm Mortgage Services, has become the first directly authorised distributor to added HSBC Life to its panel. HSBC Life offers a selection of short-...

Royal London has removed all Covid restrictions to its underwriting for cases up to £3m and below age 80, returning the mutual insurer to a pre-pandemic underwriting philosophy. The firm added it...

Alan Knowles is stepping down from his position as chairman of the Protection Distributor’s Group (PDG) after three and a half years leading the trade body. Neil McCarthy, who retired from LifeQuote...

Health & Protection speaks to Amy Jenney, protection insurance adviser at Cura Financial Services about how she managed to restore a customer's faith in protection, being interviewed in the company's driveway and...