Individual Protection

Soaring inflation reaching its highest point for 30 years is straining finances across the country meaning many people are looking to cut outgoing wherever they can. However, insurers have warned that dropping...

The Women in Finance Charter Taskforce has published a series of powerful recommendations to speed-up gender equality amid painfully slow progress within the financial services sector. Women in Finance champion Amanda Blanc...

Royal London has set a new record for protection claims paid in a single year while new business from its UK protection division grew 44%. Results for the year ended 31 December...

The Income Protection Task Force (IPTF) has announced the second edition of its Income Protection Awareness Week is set to return from 19 to 23 September. The IPTF confirmed the week will...

Swiss Re’s IptiQ protection insurance technology provider has adopted a beneficiary nomination technology which aims to remove the need for trusts to ensure death benefits are paid to the correct person. The...

LifeSearch CEO Debbie Kennedy set out her vision for growing the protection market at the advice firm's awards yesterday. Addressing guests at the annual ceremony in the City of London, Kennedy committed...

Advice firm LifeSearch has published a report which strongly criticises broker firms operating a non-advised human sales process and those insurers most supporting that process. The report includes independently conducted mystery shopping...

Broker firm Reassured has revealed life and critical illness insurance pay-outs for its customers in 2021 to date have reached £29.4m. The data from Reassured and its insurance partners show 973 claims...

MyLifeKit is set to launch LifeScore, a new app which merges health-related, environment and world data and credit-related data to offer users a score of a person’s life based on their physiological...

Aviva's protection & health business saw profits rise 21% year-on-year, according to the insurer's full year 2021 results. The group's results released this morning, reveal its protection & health business posted operating...