Protection

The Savings Bank Mutual Life Insurance Company of Massachusetts (SBLI) has agreed a distribution partnership with life insurance technology firm Plum Life. The partnership means SBLI’s guaranteed level premium term life insurance...

Panic buying of petrol across the country is threatening to push advisers back into remote working, curtailing the return of client meetings and work in the office. In August, Health & Protection...

Insurers have been urged to create income protection (IP) solutions for people who have suffered heart conditions. This is the call from Andrew Wilkinson, director at Moneysworth Life Insurance, who spoke to...

The Exeter is withdrawing its Managed Life product leaving only its Real Life plan for all customers with complex or multiple health conditions. Its Managed Life product for customers with Type 2...

Mortgage Advice Bureau’s (MAB) income from protection and general insurance commission rose 36% in the first half of 2021 to hit almost £36m. The advice network grew its insurance income from £26.3m...

The numbers of long Covid sufferers insurers are helping with income protection (IP) support ranges from under 20 to more than 70 at one provider, Health & Protection can reveal. Earlier this...

Nearly half of Britons have never seen a financial adviser but doing so boosts protection uptake, according to research from The Openwork Partnership. It found 45% of all 2,000 respondents had never...

Law firm BDB Pitmans has joined group risk industry body Grid. The law firm, which has worked on group life and excepted group life trusts for employers, insurers and independent trustees, said...

Life insurer Manulife has appointed Pankaj Banerjee as chief distribution officer for Asia. Banerjee (pictured) joins from AIA, where he was CEO for group partnership distribution, covering all of AIA Group's markets....

Introducing simple protection policies, group risk auto-enrolment and microinsurance products would help reduce lower-income customers’ exclusion from insurance, the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA) has said. The panel of lower-income people...