Protection

Upcoming regulation including changes to product pricing practices, are among the biggest challenges facing insurance professionals in the year ahead. This is according to research from the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) whose...

Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) staff are being balloted for strike action over changes to the regulator’s pay and benefits policy announced in October. The FCA’s original proposals included adding an excess for...

A career breakers programme has successfully helped a candidate return to the insurance sector after more than two decades. Last year, Health & Protection reported about a programme led by Inclusivity Partners...

Advisers should tap into the emotional triggers behind buying life insurance amid the biggest squeeze in the cost of living in 30 years, according to Chris Blackwood, managing director of communications agency...

At the start of 2021, there were 5.5 million small and medium-sized enterprises in the UK. But in our view, the real story is about the micro and small firms, with fewer...

Covid-19 was the main reason for more than half of the UK's income protection (IP) policy purchases last year and it is expected to remain a key force pushing consumer decisions for...

The vast majority of Britons are unhappy with the government’s proposals to fund social care and the most popular solution to the crisis is auto enrolment into an insurance product. This is...

Income protection provider Dentists’ Provident has appointed Matt Payne to its board as an executive director. Payne (pictured) will take operational oversight of the information systems team in his new role. A...

Employee benefits provider Unum has extended access to its health and wellbeing app Help@hand to large group life and critical illness schemes at no cost, meaning all workplace schemes now have access...

Zurich in Australia has appointed Dr Bill Monday as chief medical officer. A CMO for 25 years, Monday has worked with life insurers and reinsurers in Australia and around the world. In...