Protection

Scottish Widows paid out more than £243m in protection claims last year, an increase of 22% over 2022. This was up from £199m in protection claims in 2022 and £207.9m in 2021....

Legal & General paid total group protection claims of almost £350m in 2023. That included £249.4m in group life assurance, £73.7m for group income protection (GIP) and £26.2m for group critical illness....

LV= has appointed Gary Beyer as protection proposition director. Beyer, who will start working with LV= in July has nearly 25 years of experience in the financial services industry,  including senior positions...

Advisers have expressed their dismay at Aviva's decision to withdraw AIG’s entire expatriate cover product including all pipeline applications with immediate effect. Earlier this week, Health & Protection exclusively revealed Aviva had...

LGBTQ+ customers are 11% less likely to have individual protection than their heterosexual counterparts. This is according to Pacific Life Re's Beneath the Surface report which surveyed 2,000 adults. The report found...

Zurich has launched an optional, paid-for add-on service for its individual protection products to cover investigation and treatment for major conditions and includes care abroad. The Zurich Accelerate can be added to...

Advisers in the health and protection markets overwhelmingly expect a majority Labour government to be installed from the coming general election, polling by Health & Protection has found. Yesterday Rishi Sunak surprised...

Aviva reported a 5% increase in health and protection sales in Q1 2024 when compared to the corresponding period of last year. The insurer’s trading update for the first quarter of the...

Prime minister Rishi Sunak (pictured) has announced the UK general election will take place on 4 July. The prime minister ended growing speculation by confirming the UK will go to the polls...

Sales of new long-term individual protection policies in 2023 fell 5.5% in 2023 as the cost of living crisis continued its stranglehold on households across the country. Swiss Re's Term & Health...