Protection

LV= paid a record £127m in individual protection claims in 2022 to more than 8,000 claimants and their families, with 95% of all individual protection claims made being approved. The figure compares...

Helen Crook, head of clinical services at HCB, speaks to Health & Protection about putting the varied skills she has picked up over her career to use, why she takes inspiration from...

As a product, life insurance does not really change in nature. You die and your loved ones make a claim and their financial needs are taken care of. But processes around the...

More than 7,000 people have been added to the number of people who who are economically inactive due to long term sickness in the UK in the past month. Last month data...

CIExpert's decision to introduce Guardian's new income protection (IP) plan on its Insight Zone is "just the start of the journey" to replicating its current review service for critical illness products, the...

YuLife has launched in South Africa. Founded in London in 2016, YuLife's group risk protection product provides life, income protection, lump sum disability, and funeral cover as well as a wellbeing app...

Insurance United Against Dementia (IUAD) has now raised more than £8m for the Alzheimer’s Society. Launched in 2017 in partnership with the charity, IUAD is led by senior professionals from across the...

Manchester-based financial planning firm Pareto has joined group risk industry trade body Grid. Pareto supports its business clients across a number of areas including employee benefits and protection insurance. It also offers...

The persistent mortality protection gap is a constant reminder of the challenges reinsurers and insurers face in reaching underserved customers. By making insurance more available, accessible and affordable, our industry has a...

The Exeter has appointed proposition leads for its healthcare and protection products as well as a new head of marketing. Matt Foster has been promoted to proposition lead for healthcare having been...