Individual Protection

Health & Protection is launching its inaugural provider service ratings for insurers in the UK health and protection markets. The research measures the service performance of all the key providers across the...

Juliette Meads (pictured) is joining Aon Inpoint as a strategy manager. She joins from Vitality where she had been national account manager since June 2021. Meads moved from The Exeter where she...

Tara Clancy, senior lecturer and honorary consultant genetic counsellor and research consultant at Manchester University, will explore the role of genetics on the insurance sector at Health & Protection's upcoming Protection Forum....

Benifex has wrapped up its acquisition of Vebnet, formerly part of Standard Life. The deal, first announced in November, sees 31 corporate customers transfer to Benifex resulting in more than 140,000 employees...

Ministers are set to announce that around 1.3 million people on low wages who find themselves ill are expected to either receive 80% of their average weekly earnings or the rate of...

I am going to start this by making my position very clear. The question of how best to direct life assurance policy proceeds - whether through beneficiary nomination or trusts, is not,...

The Financial Services Compensation Services Scheme (FSCS) has appointed Jenny Watson and Richard Harvey as non-executive directors to the FSCS board, taking-up their roles from 1 March. The pair has experience in...

PwC directors Lucy Beverley and Samantha Jones will be exploring the Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) study of the protection market including an inside view of how the regulator handles the review process,...

LifeSearch recorded 1,418 individual, family and employer paid claims in 2024, with insurers paying out a total of £105,070,803 – just over £2m a week. The number of claims settled rose 35%...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has warned principals to check their professional indemnity insurance (PII) cover, after a review showed nearly 10% of firms sampled, needed to make changes to their policies...