Individual Protection

Hannah White, protection advisor at Thomas Honour Mortgage Services (pictured), speaks to Health & Protection about starting out in protection as an administrator, helping a client who had lost her husband aged...

Scottish Widows is trialling the use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems with the aim of speeding up life and critical illness insurance claims and underwriting. Using AI and natural language processing (NLP),...

To mark Dementia Action Week, Health & Protection speaks to Kathryn Knowles, co-managing director at Cura Financial Services (pictured), about the shock of finding out her dad had Parkinson's-related dementia after her...

The deadline is today for advisers to enter The UK Health & Protection Awards 2025. Entries can be submitted on the Awards website. Those entries begun today can be completed over the...

Lindsey Rix-Broom, CEO of Canada Life UK is to become the CEO for Europe for parent company Great-West Lifeco, as of 1 July.  The insurer said Rix-Broom (pictured) would continue to lead...

Rosemount Financial Solutions (IFA) has added seven new adviser firms to its network during the first quarter of the year. The new advisers who joined Rosemount between January and March 2025 were:...

National Friendly has appointed David Morris as national account manager. Morris has more than 16 years of experience in the insurance industry, including eight years at Holloway Friendly where he was partnerships...

Legal & General has added two conditions to its group critical illness (CI) cover.. The two conditions are long-term autoimmune disease, systemic lupus erythematosus, as well as primary pulmonary arterial hypertension which...

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...