Protection

The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) work to improve consumer understanding of insurance is to be welcomed, but there are no quick fixes to the problem. This is according to advisers Health &...

The vanguard phase of the Keep Britain Working review is moving at a “strong” pace, with group income protection, private medical insurance and vocational rehabilitation being discussed ahead of the release of...

The Income Protection Task Force (IPTF) has formally launched its Financial Foundations programme, a volunteer-led financial education initiative aimed at 16 to 25-year-olds in educational institutions across the UK. As Health &...

Half of hospitality workers in the UK are struggling due to their mental health with a quarter rating their mental state as poor during the past six months, Vitality has discovered. A...

LifeSearch has signed a deal to offer life insurance quotes through the Snoop money management app. The advice firm noted this latest agreement continued its push to reach consumers who might otherwise...

Amanda Moore and Zoe Mears have joined Beagle Street, part of the OneFamily Group, as strategic development manager and strategic account manager respectively. Moore (pictured right) joins from Vitality where she was...

Certua Life’s individual life cover is now available on Heka’s health-led employee benefits platform through its Surely brand. This is the first such agreement since Certua became the first new protection-focused UK...

Advisers are focused on the client’s needs, the risks they face and the confidence to make a decision. Then the application goes in, and the conversation can shift. Has it moved forward?...

British Friendly, Legal & General and The Exeter have spoken candidly about how they overhauled their claims service in the aftermath of the pandemic. The trio of protection providers made significant changes...

Nudges at milestone moments in life could be key to closing the gap among certain communities who are not even at "first base" in their understanding of protection insurance. This is according...