Protection

Shortlists for the UK Health & Protection Awards 2024 provider categories have been revealed after advisers voted to support their favoured providers. The shortlists cover 13 categories spanning the breadth of the...

This Mental Health Awareness Week, Health & Protection features Florence Streames, finance assistant at Velvet Mortgage and Insure Services, who speaks about building a career in protection while coping with severe obsessive...

Mortgage and protection firm Access Financial Services has appointed Jeremy Lock as director of compliance. Lock joins from Absolute Return Investment Advisers (ARIA) where he was head of compliance. Previously, Lock was...

Towergate Health & Protection has appointed Kate Kilpatrick as head of marketing - employee benefits. Following the creation of its centralised advisory marketing team last year, Kilpatrick (pictured) will work in partnership...

Value added benefits (VABs) as part of critical illness and life insurance cover are helping to ease conversations about mental health and provide vital support, according to research from HSBC Life (UK). ...

Mental ill health accounted for the most common reason for customers to call Zurich’s employee assistance programme (EAP), but this coincided with a dramatic increase in the number of customer calls on...

The Income Protection Task Force (IPTF) has released a film to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the 7Families project. The 7Families project which ran between 2014 and 2016 followed the lives...

Alexander Beard Group has joined commercial insurance, risk management, and employee benefits brokerage group Assurex Global Partnership. Founded in 1954, Ohio-based Assurex Global is a partnership of more than 100 independent agents...

Katy Davies is returning to Hanbury Wealth as a protection adviser. Back in August last year, Health & Protection revealed Davies (pictured) was joining London-based private client firm Henry Dannell as specialist...

Medical advances and effective investment in data has meant Gen Re has been able to cover conditions it traditionally could never consider previously, such as Huntingdon's and cystic fibrosis. Speaking at Health...