Protection

LV= paid a record £119m in protection claims in 2021 to more than 9,000 claimants and their families, with 96% of all individual protection claims made being approved. This compares to £117.8m...

Phil Jeynes is responding to the report and independent research published by advice firm LifeSearch last month about the quality of non-advised protection sales.   According to Swiss Re’s 2021 Term and...

Royal London has made a number of changes to its non-medical limits for income protection (IP) which are aimed at speeding up the process for offering cover to customers and its straight...

Businesses should consider a four-day working week and regulate working hours to promote a healthy work-life balance supporting mental and physical health, University College London (UCL) is recommending. The university also called...

British Friendly has overhauled its income protection (IP) application processand extended its maximum earnings limit and benefit payment. The insurer has cut its online medical and lifestyle questionnaire to nine compulsory questions...

RSA Insurance chief financial officer and interim CEO of RSA UK and International Charlotte Jones is joining Aviva as CFO from 5 September. Jones has held a number of roles over her...

Consumers should seek regulated advice rather than listen to 'finfluncers' when making important financial decisions, according to LifeSearch chairman Tom Baigrie. Recent years have given rise to the 'finfluencer' - an influencer...

Justin Harper is to leave LV= following a restructure of the mutual's protection team. In a statement LV= revealed the restructure will see its protection marketing & proposition and protection strategy &...

National Friendly has agreed a partnership with IPipeline to make its protection products available to intermediaries through IPipeline's SolutionBuilder portal. The portal enables advisers to compare quotes, product features and accelerate the...

Using the word turbulent to describe the last two years doesn't really do justice to the reality we've all lived. And while a different kind of turbulence now rages on in Ukraine,...