Individual Protection

Beagle Street has formally launched into the advised protection market with its first life insurance and critical illness (CI) products. The launch follows a pilot with a group of intermediaries, whose feedback...

Aviva is transitioning more than 80% of medical examinations from traditional doctor examinations to nurse-led medical screenings. The insurer said the changes to its non-medical underwriting limits aimed to make the process...

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is no excuse for obstructing vulnerable protection customers from accessing added value services. This is according to protection industry veteran and Morgan Ash chairman Johnny Timpson (pictured),...

Fairer Finance has warned of a ‘hollowing out’ of private medical insurance (PMI) and protection products to facilitate distribution through price comparison websites. James Daley, managing director of the consumer group, warned...

The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) has published new guidance to support insurance and personal finance firms in managing data relating to customers in vulnerable circumstances.  The Data Privacy for Customers in Vulnerable...

VitalityLife paid £149m in claims across life, serious illness and income protection (IP) in 2025 – almost 5% up from £142m the previous year. The life insurance approval rate was up slightly...

While overall income protection (IP) applications and volumes have increased 7% and 56%, respectively, year-on-year, the market still faces a protection gap that remains "stubbornly large". This is according to the third...

Celebrities like Love Island’s Molly Mae will never effectively educate young people about protection products and it is too late to start cutting Generation Alpha off from social media. These were two...

How artificial intelligence (AI) creates a return on investment is still the big question that insurers need answering, Health & Protection's IPMI breakfast briefing in association with Flywire has heard. This was...

Protection insurers should resist raising the red flag when it comes to individuals who disclose they are proactively taking care of their mental health. This is according to panellists who were participating...