Individual Protection

A customer once told Rhys Schofield, founder of Peak Mortgages and Protection, that they did not want their policy to start because Mars was in retrograde. On the second day of Income...

Aviva has told Health & Protection it is actively seeking to improve turnaround times for protection applications for underwriting requiring a GP report. It added that targeted interventions and additional resourcing was...

Advisers need to stop selling short term income protection (IP) plans as the default option as the average length of an IP claim lasts longer than the shortest plan on the market....

More conversations about income protection are taking place, but they're not necessarily better quality, according to Martin O'Connell, founder of The Protection Revolution. Speaking to Income Protection Task Force MD Jo Miller...

Eleos Life has launched a term life insurance offering in the UK. Its income protection product was launched in 2023. The cover features an entirely digital application process where customers can take...

Certainty of underwriting decision is increasingly critical for advisers and their clients to ensure smooth and stress-free processes, says David Russell, Senior Manager Claims and Underwriting Strategy at Scottish Widows. In this...

Pivotal Growth has acquired protection broker Believe Money Group for an undisclosed sum. Founded by Ryan Wagstaff and Ian Johnson in 2017, the mortgage broker's services also include unsecured lending, commercial and...

Poisonings, accidental or otherwise, rank highly among everyday risks. This is according to Phil Jeynes, head of individual protection, UK, at MetLife UK (pictured), and he should know - he once poisoned...

New Leaf Distribution has appointed Jo Pawson as head of protection. Pawson (pictured) joins from John Charcol where she was network business development manager. A former business development manager for health and...

Healthcare expenses are a concern for the majority of Singapore's residents, according to the AIA Live Better Study. The study which surveyed 1,000 Singaporean residents found 50% claimed to be financially stable,...