Protection

Iress has added ex-smoker questions to income protection (IP) underwriting on its sourcing platform, extending it from term and critical illness comparisons. The firm said the ex-smoker feature - supported at launch...

The protection sector needs to focus its attention on a ruling which threatens to drive a "coach and horses" through every part of commission in financial services, according to Robert Sinclair, chief...

The government review of how employers promote healthy workplaces will include actions and recommendations to prevent people becoming unwell, support early intervention and help return to work. It also envisaged a “new...

Tyler Ogilvie, (pictured) vice president for international benefits at Penmore Financial Group based in Calgary, Canada speaks to Health & Protection about the importance of adding value, learning from his mother, why...

Benefex has bought Vebnet from Standard Life and will take over provision of flexible benefit services to 31 employers. The firms have not disclosed the cost of the acquisition but announced the...

Beagle Street has signed up to the Protection Distributors Group (PDG) Funeral Payment Pledge to offer payments for funeral expenses for customers where bereavement claims may be being delayed. The insurer, which...

Following its acquisition of AIG Life UK, Aviva has signed a five-year partnership deal with the NatWest Group for the distribution of its protection insurance products through NatWest’s UK retail banking brands...

A trio of cancer-beating opera artistes, including a soprano, tenor and a pianist, is aiming to give voice to the 77,000 people waiting more than two months for cancer treatment since getting...

Generali UK is launching a cancer recovery support service from 1 January at no extra cost as an add-on to its group life assurance proposition. All employees of its group life assurance...

MPs and peers are proposing that the appointed representative (AR) regime should either be banned entirely or networks should be made 100% responsible for their ARs. They suggest the Financial Conduct Authority...