Individual Protection

The Income Protection Taskforce (IPTF) is launching a financial education initiative to teach young adults about managing their money and the financial services industry. The initiative, called Financial Foundations was soft launched...

The Exeter reported a loss of £4.26m for 2025, an improvement on the £8.51m deficit it posted in 2024, as claims and adviser commission rose across its health and protection products. However,...

Eleven members of the Association of Financial Mutuals (AFM) approved more than 92% of new income protection (IP) claims made in 2025. Furthermore, AFM members increased IP sales by around 7%, selling...

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has rejected the proposal of having minimum standards or cover on products offered through price comparison websites. The option was proposed by Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted...

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) is preparing a “multimedia multi-year” campaign to educate consumers about key terms and elements of insurance products. The trade body revealed the plans at a House...

Shepherds Friendly has appointed Laura Gauden as head of sales with a brief to grow the mutual society’s intermediary partnerships. Gauden (pictured) brings more than 20 years of mortgage and insurance intermediary...

Sam Traynor, product development and pricing actuary at Shepherds Friendly, speaks to Health & Protection about encountering presumptive people early in his working life in another sector, his more positive experience in...

I recently sat on a panel about claims modernisation. The room was full of people whose job is to pay claims faster: carriers, technology vendors, a McKinsey partner moderating. We spent 40...

Employers need to act earlier to reduce the £85bn they collectively lose each year to poor health in their workforce, the Association of Medical Insurers and Intermediaries (AMII) health and wellbeing summit...

Beagle Street has launched its first two protection products into the intermediary market – life insurance and critical illness (CI) plans. Health & Protection has key details of the products - which...