Individual Protection

The deadline is arriving for advisers to enter The UK Health & Protection Awards 2025. Entries can be submitted on the Awards website. Health & Protection would also like to thank all...

Scottish Widows paid out £236.6m in protection claims in 2024. This was marginally down on the £243m paid out in 2023, but up from £199m in protection claims in 2022 and £207.9m...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is consulting on ending its requirement for insurance firms to review the value of their product at least every 12 months. Under its proposal, firms would instead...

Legal & General broke the £1bn in retail protection claims barrier in 2024 which included approving income protection (IP) and critical illness (CI) claims that had been on risk for just a...

The Income Protection Task Force (IPTF) has added Empath_AI as its tenth new member of 2025. Research shows that up to one-third of callers to regulated contact centres may have unidentified vulnerabilities....

Almost all life cover applications with asthma, back pain and osteoarthritis disclosures were instantly accepted by insurers in 2024. The findings, taken from UnderwriteMe’s Protection Platform Pulse Report 2024, showed that life...

New technologies typically incite passionate views about their potential to change the world, or at least certain industries and operations. So it is no surprise that despite not formally appearing on the...

Insurers play an important role in helping employees to get back to work quicker, according to research from Vitality.  The research showed that of the insurance advisers polled, a total of 85% say that...

The UK Health & Protection Awards 2025 are open for entries from advisers, while the provider shortlists have also been unveiled this week. There are 14 Awards for advisers to highlight the...

Protection industry veteran, Angela Davidson, speaks to Health & Protection about why she's retiring after 20 years of advising on protection, what still needs to be done to close the protection gap...