Protection

The proliferation of mobile devices tracking how people move has underwriters eager to tap this data for risk assessment. Wearables data has the potential to accelerate applications and inspire new products, but...

To kick off Pride Month, Amy Potter, protection team manager at London & Country, spoke to Health & Protection about feeling initially lost in a predominantly male and heterosexual industry, her delight...

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) has endorsed calls for tax breaks or other support from government to support workplace healthcare after staff absence cost it £1.3m...

The typical insurance broker or financial adviser is male, aged between 25 and 34, works full time and lives in London, according to Office for National Statistics (ONS) analysis. The ONS drew...

HSBC has added Legal & General's protection proposition to its wealth panel making the insurer's products available to the bank's customers. The move was effective from 26 April and gives HSBC UK...

YuLife has been certified as a B Corporation (B Corp), joining a group of companies who are aiming to reinvent business by pursuing purpose as well as profit. YuLife has been certified...

Abrdn has sold all of its shares in Indian life insurer HDFC Life Insurance Company Limited. In a statement to the London Stock Exchange the global investment firm revealed subsidiary Abrdn (Mauritius...

Royal London paid out £631m in protection claims in 2022 approving 99.4% of all claims and paying benefits to almost 80,000 customers and their families. This compares with the previous year's data...

Scottish Widows paid out a total of £199m in protection claims last year, down from £207.9m in 2021. More than 98% of all protection claims were paid out to a total of...

Customers have been supported with £6.85bn in claims pay-outs across group and individual protection policies in 2022. Latest figures from the Association of British Insurers (ABI) revealed individual policies paid out 287,000...