Protection

Guardian marketing and proposition director Jacqui Gillies is leaving the insurer and departing the industry after 42 years while the provider said it will be focusing on working with fewer advisers and...

Price comparison website MoneySupermarket has launched an online life insurance service in collaboration with protection adviser LifeSearch. The service offers a range of life insurance products including critical illness cover, whole of...

The Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) upcoming review of the pure protection market could be "devastating" if it is too overly focused on commissions and fails to learn lessons from the experiences of...

Zurich has entered the group critical illness (CI) market completing a full suite of group risk products. Zurich told Health & Protection that while the cover is paid by for employers, it...

Towergate Employee Benefits has appointed Mark Pugh to the new role of head of consulting services as of today. Pugh (pictured speaking at the Health & Protection IPMI Summit 2023) joins the...

The majority of life insurance customers are unhappy with the transparency and clarity of premiums they pay while half are underwhelmed with the overall experience. Encouragingly younger policyholders value life insurance highly...

The very nature of insurance and pooling risk means that there will always be some people denied cover. This becomes an ever more emotive subject when customers are denied protection in situations...

  There has been a debate about the increase in income protection recommendations and even some speculation about whether income protection could eventually overtake critical illness insurance in terms of policies sold....

The World Health Organisation (WHO) declared that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the top 10 global public health threats facing humanity. AMR occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites no longer...

Non-salaried workers, including freelancers, self-employed people and those on zero-hours contracts or hourly pay are significantly less likely to have life insurance cover than their salaried peers, according to research from Beagle...