Individual Protection

Most vulnerable customers do not feel comfortable about talking to their financial service providers about their situation, according to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in its Vulnerability Review, published today.  The FCA...

Former PIB Employee Benefits head of protection Wes McCranor (pictured) has launched a protection advisory firm, Sphere Assured for individual and group clients. Sphere Assured specialises in insurance solutions for SMEs, mergers...

Royal London completed £27m of protection sales in 2024 - up  by 11% on the previous year, according to its full year financial results. The mutual’s financial results for the year 31...

Two-thirds (65%) of single mums have no protection insurance at all, even though women run a greater risk of financial insecurity than men, according to exclusive research from Scottish Widows shared with...

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,...