Individual Protection

IPipeline has added the Vitality serious illness cover comparison tool to the compare quality service element of its protection quote and apply portal. The move means advisers can compare Vitality’s serious illness...

Sesame Bankhall Group has appointed Craig Ross to the newly created role of propositions director, to lead  expansion of its wealth, protection, later life, and mortgage services to directly authorised firms and...

Half of level term assurance policies sold in 2020 were unadvised as the market share for these channels continued to grow, Swiss Re’s Term and Health Watch found. According to the data,...

Aegon UK has launched a new discretionary trust form aimed at making it quicker and easier for advisers and their clients to place personal protection and whole of life policies in trust....

LV= is extending its doctor services to include spouses and partners of protection policyholders. The services provides policyholders with access to six expert medical services on its app or by calling Square...

Individual protection policy sales fell by 1.2% to 2,157,263 in 2020, according to Swiss Re’s latest Term and Health Watch report, the first fall since 2013. The reinsurer’s data, produced in association...

Vitality is removing the majority of the underwriting restrictions that were put in place at the height of the pandemic due to progress made with the UK vaccination programme and a decrease...

An income protection (IP) customer whose policy was cancelled when he tried to make a claim has had his complaint rejected by the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) for failing to fully disclose...

People at their outset of early middle age can live for just three months without income and accessing their main savings, according to the Aegon Financial Wellbeing Index. The insurer's research reveals...

Vitality is integrating with Samsung Health to provide members with more ways to track their activity. The partnership will allow members with Samsung devices to link their health profile to their Vitality...