Individual Protection

Advisers should tap into the emotional triggers behind buying life insurance amid the biggest squeeze in the cost of living in 30 years, according to Chris Blackwood, managing director of communications agency...

At the start of 2021, there were 5.5 million small and medium-sized enterprises in the UK. But in our view, the real story is about the micro and small firms, with fewer...

Covid-19 was the main reason for more than half of the UK's income protection (IP) policy purchases last year and it is expected to remain a key force pushing consumer decisions for...

The vast majority of Britons are unhappy with the government’s proposals to fund social care and the most popular solution to the crisis is auto enrolment into an insurance product. This is...

Income protection provider Dentists’ Provident has appointed Matt Payne to its board as an executive director. Payne (pictured) will take operational oversight of the information systems team in his new role. A...

Zurich in Australia has appointed Dr Bill Monday as chief medical officer. A CMO for 25 years, Monday has worked with life insurers and reinsurers in Australia and around the world. In...

The cost of the average funeral has gone down in the UK for the first time since at least 2004. This is according to life insurer SunLife's 2022 Cost of Dying Report...

Higher staff departure rates due to the pandemic and increased costs connected to sourcing talent from the EU a year on from Brexit are creating an extremely competitive labour market for insurers....

Zurich has launched standalone critical illness (CI) cover for customers who do not want a product combined with life insurance. It is also widening its Total Permanent Disability (TPD) definition, offering standard...

Almost three quarters (73%) of Aviva individual and group protection customers who have returned a valid annual health check through the insurer's DigiCare+ and DigiCare+ Workplace service over the past year suffer...