Individual Protection

More than half of young adults have protection cover in place, according to research by Vitality. The insurer also found around half of Generation X and Millennials, typically aged 44 or below,...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued detailed information requests to more than 30 insurers and intermediaries as research for its pure protection market study. The regulator is also conducting consumer research...

LSL Financial Services has appointed Neil Hoare as sales director within its financial services division. Hoare (pictured) will join on 1 September from his current role as commercial director of HL Partnership...

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has deployed a financial vulnerability assessment tool across its broker network. Developed by Comentis, the tool aims to improve identification of and help to support vulnerable customers. It...

HSBC expects to register a $100m (approximately £73m) pre-tax loss on the sale of the HSBC Life (UK) arm to Chesnara. Earlier in July HSBC and Chesnara announced the agreement to buy...

The judging panel for the UK Health & Protection Awards 2025 has been revealed. In all, 45 experts and leaders from across the health, protection and international insurance and workplace benefits industry...

WhatsApp is coming into its own in meeting young protection customer's expectations of an entirely app-based purchasing experience. This is according to Kesh Thukaram, co-founder at Best Insurance, who spoke to Health...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has been forced to appoint an interim chairman of the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) from the FCA board after admitting "the initial recruitment campaign proved unsuccessful". Liam...

The fracture cover pay out for the type of injury England's Lucy Bronze was carrying for all of Euro 2025 would be around £6,000. In the aftermath of England's Women's successful defence...

Nothing has been done about low private medical insurance (PMI) policy renewal commissions from insurers incentivising bad adviser behaviour for 20 years, according to compliance consultant Branko Bjelobaba. However, he warned that...