Individual Protection

Employers would be well advised to continue to encourage the wearing of masks if government isn't prepared to mandate their use, according to the co-founder of Square Health. Dr Bippon Vinayak, the...

Claims Consortium Group (CCG) director of operations and third party administration Claire Lashbrook has joined the advisory board of the Society of Claims Professionals. The society is the professional body within the...

Software provider IPipeline has agreed a long-term partnership with insurer and financial services provider OneFamily. IPipeline's SSG Digital platform will replace the mutual's existing savings, investments, and protection platform, which will be...

Most life insurers say they currently use little or no automation, according to a survey from Willis Towers Watson. The Actuarial Reporting Automation survey quizzed life and property and casualty (P&C) insurers...

A programme which enables 'career break' professionals to return to the insurance sector has proven so successful that its organisers are considering renewing it for a new batch of recruits later this...

Insurance service provider Phoenix Group has agreed to sell Ark Life Assurance Company to Irish Life Group for €230m (£197m). Ark Life is a closed book business which manages heritage savings and...

Owl Financial, The Openwork Partnership’s protection advice business, has improved its gender balance and recruited more than 165 advisers in the first half of this year. The firm said a major focus...

Legal & General has introduced two optional protection benefits for customers available exclusively through intermediaries – fracture cover and private diagnostics. Both can be purchased as an add-on when taking out one...

New Zealand life insurer Fidelity Life has appointed Bronwyn Kirwan as its new chief sales and service officer. Kirwan, who most recently has been leading Swiss Re-owned insurer IptiQ, has held distribution...

Financial adviser Jordanne Whiley won the Wimbledon women’s doubles wheelchair title on Sunday – her fifth time claiming the trophy. However, the mortgage and protection adviser at Hearthstone Mortgages was back at...