Individual Protection

Insurers paid out £6.2bn in life insurance, income protection, and critical illness claims in 2020, equivalent to £17m a day, according to figures from the Association of British Insurers (ABI) and Group...

Zurich has appointed Nick Erskine to the newly created role of director of distribution. Erskine (pictured) joins from AIG where he spent six and a half years, most recently as head of...

IPipeline has partnered with general insurance broker Safe&Secure Insurance to launch a home insurance referral service. The new service is available through the SolutionBuilder protection sourcing system and enables advisers to refer...

Aviva is removing most of its Covid underwriting criteria introduced at the start of the pandemic for individual protection applications, with immediate effect. The insurer says the move follows progress now being...

Protection and health insurance advisers will see their Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) levy significantly reduced after the regulator updated its expectations for this financial year. For those pure protection and health...

Shortlists for the UK Health & Protection Awards 2021 provider categories have been revealed after advisers voted to support their favoured providers. The shortlists cover 15 categories spanning the breadth of the...

Shortlists for the UK Health & Protection Awards 2021 adviser categories have been revealed. The shortlists cover 10 categories spanning the breadth of the health and protection insurance industry. The finalists will...

Protection Guru is launching a dedicated claims hub to support advisers with client conversations. The free hub brings together data from 16 different insurance companies to provide advisers with a single destination...

Scottish Widows paid out more than £206m in protection claims in 2020, including paid 650 Covid-related claims totalling just over £7m. The insurer revealed it paid out more than 98% of protection...

Government has come under fire for not providing enough detail about exactly how it plans to reform social care and its latest proposals have been branded "disappointing". The subject of social care...