Individual Protection

The Exeter has paid more than £1.5m in cash benefit for overnight hospital stays since it increased the level of refund as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Steve Bryan, director of...

The UK may be home to twice the number of long Covid sufferers than first feared, with research suggesting the figure could be as high as two million. The Imperial College London-led...

Zurich is revamping its recruitment practices as new data indicates a slight widening of its ethnicity pay gap. Releasing its UK ethnicity pay gap data for 2021, the insurer revealed a mean...

Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company has appointed Ying Yu as head of sustainability. Yu was most recently senior vice president at property management firm Prologis where she was responsible for the global...

The Income Protection Task Force (IPTF) is to launch Income Protection Awareness Week - an awareness campaign supported by events running from the 20 – 24 September. The campaign is aimed at...

Resolution Life has appointed Nardeep Sangha as CEO new markets with responsiblity for sourcing new opportunities in reinsurance and life, particularly focusing on new risk markets and broader geographies including Asia and...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is proposing a climate-related financial disclosure regime to increase transparency and “enable clients and consumers to make considered choices”. The move is the latest step in the...

LV= has revealed the details behind two claims it declined to illustrate to advisers the importance of ensuring their clients take cover when healthy and fully divulging any conditions at application. The...

AIG Life has today removed the last of its individual protection Covid underwriting restrictions and returned its criteria to pre-pandemic levels for all but the largest sums assured. While AIG's UK life...

National regulations are making it harder for smaller firms to expand their business into more international private medical insurance (IPMI) markets. In addressing delegates at the Health Compass Transforming the Transaction in...