Protection

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has rejected the proposal of having minimum standards or cover on products offered through price comparison websites. The option was proposed by Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted...

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) is preparing a “multimedia multi-year” campaign to educate consumers about key terms and elements of insurance products. The trade body revealed the plans at a House...

Shepherds Friendly has appointed Laura Gauden as head of sales with a brief to grow the mutual society’s intermediary partnerships. Gauden (pictured) brings more than 20 years of mortgage and insurance intermediary...

Sam Traynor, product development and pricing actuary at Shepherds Friendly, speaks to Health & Protection about encountering presumptive people early in his working life in another sector, his more positive experience in...

I recently sat on a panel about claims modernisation. The room was full of people whose job is to pay claims faster: carriers, technology vendors, a McKinsey partner moderating. We spent 40...

Employers need to act earlier to reduce the £85bn they collectively lose each year to poor health in their workforce, the Association of Medical Insurers and Intermediaries (AMII) health and wellbeing summit...

The human loop is essential to adopting new technologies and insurers will have to understand their employees’ artificial intelligence (AI) IQ when implementing changes, Health & Protection's IPMI breakfast briefing has heard....

Beagle Street has launched its first two protection products into the intermediary market – life insurance and critical illness (CI) plans. Health & Protection has key details of the products - which...

Beagle Street has formally launched into the advised protection market with its first life insurance and critical illness (CI) products. The launch follows a pilot with a group of intermediaries, whose feedback...

Aviva is transitioning more than 80% of medical examinations from traditional doctor examinations to nurse-led medical screenings. The insurer said the changes to its non-medical underwriting limits aimed to make the process...