Protection

While younger generations - particularly men - are getting better at talking about their own mental health issues, the nation is facing a "double whammy" from the aftermath of the pandemic and...

Unum UK has revealed it has surpassed two million employees insured across its product range for the first time. The figure includes insured employees covered by group income protection, group critical illness,...

The number of people in the UK suffering long Covid symptoms for more than a year has rocketed above the one million mark for the first time, according to official figures. Latest...

Guardian has launched on UnderwriteMe’s protection platform sourcing system. The platform allows advisers to compare fully underwritten buy-now quotes on multiple products from a range of providers. Guardian said the partnership would...

The Consumer Duty and the continuing cost of living crisis are among the key challenges facing advisers at the moment. But Health & Protection has found advisers are rising to these challenges...

Axa, Aon, HCA Healthcare and LfieWorks are among the companies that have come together to drive development and adoption of the global Mental Health at Work Index. The index includes a standardised...

Less than half of workers who are worried about potential lost income following personal illness or injury are doing anything about it by applying for income protection (IP), according to research from...

Russell Higginbotham, the CEO of Swiss Re Solutions, has been elected president of the Chartered Insurance Institute for 2023. Higginbotham started his career in 1986 with a UK life insurer and will...

Processing health data could become a lot more difficult if the UK diverges from current European general data protection regulation (GDPR), an employment lawyer has warned. And if the UK's proposed new...

Protection Guru has appointed Niki Cooke as chief revenue officer. Cooke joins from mortgage sourcing system provider Twenty7Tec Group where she was director of intermediary relationships. Earlier in her career, she was...