Protection

The government collected £130m more in insurance premium tax (IPT) receipts in the first 11 months of the financial year than it did during the same period 12 months ago. The tax...

The insurance sector has been talking about ensuring more customers take out critical illness cover for the past 30 years, but all that has happened in that time is that the protection...

The huge burden of employees caring for a loved one with cancer is often misunderstood.  This is according to Denise Wond, marketing director at Reframe Cancer (pictured), who was speaking at an...

Ascend Broking Group’s success at the Health & Protection Awards was a “massive step up” and was a contributor to the broker attracting the funding to drive the business forward. This is...

The number of protection policies sold in 2025 rose 1.4% continuing the market's incremental recovery, according to data from reinsurer Gen Re. New policies sold rose to 2,042,789 last year from 2,015,560...

Aviva is expanding its AI underwriting summarisation tool to support individual critical illness (CI) insurance applications.  The move means the insurer will now be able to summarise most individual protection applications where...

The Protection Distributors Group (PDG) has added CoverMyBubble and Omny Benefits as members, while Meg Kirby MBE, founder of charity LegaCare, is to become an ambassador. Emma Astley, founder and adviser at...

UnderwriteMe has launched AI Engine for post-issue audits, an automated misrepresentation detection solution designed to help life insurers dramatically expand audit coverage —without increasing underwriting resource. Post-issue audits are reviews conducted after...

Spectrum.Life has entered the Australian market through the acquisitions of Melbourne-based MindFit at Work and Sydney-based We Lysn and Valion Health. Rather than entering the Australian market organically, Spectrum.Life explained it has...

Lianne Jackson has joined National Friendly as business development manager (BDM). Jackson (pictured) joins from Bupa where she had been a BDM since 2024 and will report directly to Gifford Clay, head...