Protection

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has followed through on a commitment to launch a review into how financial services firms treat customers in vulnerable circumstances. Under the regulator's Consumer Duty, firms should...

EY has appointed Alistair Brannan as UK head of life and pensions. Brannan (pictured) will also join EY’s UK insurance leadership team and remains client and markets leader for its financial services business...

DeadHappy has been told to close to new life insurance customers, with its underwriter no longer taking on any new business from the firm. The life insurance company, who last year courted...

A German man has been jailed after he was found to have faked his own death so that he could claim €4m on a series of life insurance policies. The Mirror reports...

MetLife UK has announced it paid out more than £22m over the past year. The provider said that over the period between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2023 it paid out...

Growth in chronic diseases, particularly type 2 diabetes, is one of the emerging trends that helped drive Dr Karan Mehta to create Bluezone, a life insurance provider for a very specific fast-growing...

Week 7 of The Apprentice saw the contestants fly out to Hungary with the mission of selling a Budapest experience to tourists. A further reshuffling of the teams saw protection adviser Raj...

Individual income protection provider Cirencester Friendly paid more than £9.3m in claims in 2023, while its longest running claim has been paid for 33 years. The mutual paid 95.8% of claims paid...

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network and The Right DA Club have appointed Mark Gould as national account manager working across both propositions. Gould (pictured) starts the role with immediate effect, working...

British Friendly has paid 89% of new income protection claims in 2023 and just under £5m to its members in income protection, discretionary BF care claims and fracture cover claims. The mutual...