Individual Protection

MetLife UK paid 14,036 individual protection claims in the last 12 months totalling £12.1m, according to the company’s latest claims data. The figures also show that MetLife paid out 244 claims totalling...

Premier Choice Healthcare (PCH), the Northamptonshire-based specialist health insurance and protection broker, has acquired Sussex-based broker SJA International. The deal is the first PCH has completed since it became part of Global...

Aviva is to give all its 16,000 UK employees an extra day off this year, specifically to help with their wellbeing. The move is part of a range of ‘winter wellbeing’ events...

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) is to launch a mental health e-learning module for advisers and frontline staff with the charity Rightsteps in early 2021. The module is being designed to...

By December this year more than nine million Britons had to borrow more than they normally do while at the same time credit card balances actually fell by 14.7%, official figures show....

The highest number of peacetime excess deaths in Scotland since 1891 has just been recorded. The National Records of Scotland (NRS) said there were 6,324 excess deaths last year, 11% higher than...

There was more good news for Britain’s businesses and their health and protection advisers this week when latest research showed that the City’s recruitment market is defying widespread predictions of prolonged downturn....

The weekly cost of residential long-term care in Islington, North London, is £1,488 – and £621 in Blaenau Gwent, Wales. The figures have emerged as part of Legal & General research which...

A new suite of toolkits developed in collaboration with Public Health England (PHE) has been launched by an industry body in a bid to support employers’ efforts to improve the health and...

Royal London has added an “Underwrite Later” option for life cover on its Business Menu and Relevant Life Plans, allowing cover to be offered while medical evidence is being obtained. Eligible customers...