Individual Protection

There are eight days left to vote in the UK Health & Protection Awards 2025. Advisers, brokers and other intermediaries including employee benefit consultants can vote to recognise the providers they believe...

The UK group risk market added more than half a million lives covered in 2024 although the rate of expansion slowed due to a more challenging backdrop, according to Swiss Re’s latest...

Bernhard Kaufmann will succeed Patrick Raaflaub as Swiss Re's group chief risk officer as of 1 October 2025. Kaufmann (pictured) has held chief risk officer positions across the reinsurance and insurance sectors...

The sunny Mr Blue Sky, the crowd pleasing Thunderstruck and even the Fairytale of New York feature among advisers' top choices of go-to songs when they want to reduce stress. To mark...

Stress Awareness Month is a good reminder of the issues we’re facing as a society. Stress is not just a buzzword, it is a growing public health crisis, with 74% of people...

A landmark ruling handed down by the Supreme Court on the legal definition of a woman under the Equality Act 2010 has implications for private medical insurance (PMI) underwriters, according to a...

Dentists’ Provident distributed £7.9m as bonuses to its members in 2024 according to its annual report, released this week. That represented an increase of £400,000 over 2023, when the bonus was £7.5m...

Rosemount Financial Solutions (IFA) has added MetLife UK to its protection proposition. Rosemount network members will have access to the entire MetLife UK range, encompassing the EverydayProtect, ChildShield and MortgageSafe products. EverydayProtect...

Hiis adding five new definitions and changing 24 as part of a series of updates across both its adult and children's CI cover. The changes, set to come into effect this month,...

William Russell has revamped its individual life insurance offering including the introduction of smoker rates and an increase to the minimum age at last renewal from 69 to 74 (or 69 if...