Individual Protection

Early estimates of the number of individuals who suffer from so-called “long-Covid” have been released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), suggesting that it could have impacted more than 150,000 people....

LV= is giving up its mutual status and is selling its savings & retirement and protection businesses to Bain Capital, the private equity firm, for £530m. The deal follows the sale, for...

IPipeline, the digital solutions and services provider for the protection industry, has launched a new online self-serve tool designed to allow advisers to receive an indicative underwriting decision for their clients before...

The vast majority of financial advisers believe that protection insurers should be more willing to pay out sums to clients who are diagnosed with incurable cancers, a poll suggests. A poll of...

One in five people in Britain say their income has fallen over the past three months – and more than one in four expect their financial situation to worsen over the next...

Paul Brencher, managing director of individual protection at Aviva UK, has been appointed as the new chair of the Association of British Insurers’ Protection Board. Brencher (pictured), who succeeds outgoing chair Dominic Grinstead...

Aviva has introduced a number of changes designed to help to speed up the onboarding of protection customers, following a review of its non-medical limits. From this month, its protection products -...

UnderwriteMe has announced that Paul Hughes has joined as head of Asia-Pacific, a new role created within the business to lead the technology specialist’s teams in Asia and Australia across all functions....

GRiD, the trade body for the group risk and protection industry, has urged  employers to do encourage their staff to make use of their existing employee benefits in the run up to...

Tenet Group, the UK financial adviser network and support group, is to make UnderwriteMe’s Protection Platform available to its members. The partnership means that Tenet, and the firms it works with, will...