Individual Protection

A shortfall in technical skills and a retiring workforce is proving a key pain point for health and protection insurers and their technology systems, writes Owain Thomas.   Download the roundtable supplement...

Versed Financial, an appointed representative of network Rosemount Financial Solutions (IFA), has appointed broadcaster Sally Mitchell, as a mortgage and protection consultant. Mitchell (pictured) has appeared on television and radio discussing the...

Guardian insurance paid more than £21m in protection claims in 2024, up from £15m in 2023. This included 100% of life claims, 94% of terminal illness (TI) and 92% of critical illness...

Reassured has announced that the benefit paid out to customers who made life and critical illness claims in 2024 grew 34% year-on-year. In total payments reached £67m from across Reassured’s core insurer...

Krysalis has joined the Income Protection Task Force (IPTF). Krysalis is a neurological occupational rehabilitation service for individuals who have suffered a brain injury or struggle with neurological conditions. It launched in...

CIExpert has revamped its Insight Zone Dashboard. The revamped dashboard acts as an overview for the existing Insight Zone pages for critical illness (CI), income protection (IP), and life cover, by providing...

Kicking off Pride Month, Matthew Draper, technical operations manager at The OneFamily Group, speaks to Health & Protection about feeling like the odd one out earlier in his career, the gradual change...

Ahead of Cancer Survivor's Day on 1 June Beverley Lambert, a claims consultant at Cirencester Friendly (pictured), tells Health & Protection about discovering a lump in her breast four years ago, undergoing...

Shepherds Friendly paid out £3.23m in income protection (IP) claims in 2024. The mutual also said a total of 477 claims were submitted during the year, with around 96% of these IP...

Income protection (IP) sales have soared due to a number of factors including customers' increased appetite for normal retirement age products and the product potentially making gains at the expense of other...