Protection

Shepherds Friendly has joined the Protection Distributors Group (PDG) claims charter. The charter incorporates a number of pledges including having a dedicated claims team to handle all telephone-based claims alongside a process...

Almost 60,000 people who submitted a claim for state disability benefits in 2020 were still awaiting a decision four months into this year. This accounted for 10% of cases submitted last year,...

AIG Life has appointed Michael Aitchison as chief actuary. Aitchison (pictured) joins the UK life insurance arm of AIG on 2 August and will report to chief financial officer Donald MacLean. Aitchison...

Royal London is to re-join the Income Protection Taskforce (IPTF) this month after a year away. The move takes the total number of IPTF members to 29, including 14 full members, nine...

The pandemic has had the combined effect of focusing people's minds on the fact they are not invincible and causing many to interrogate their employer's group risk offering for the first time....

The government has dismissed calls to require businesses to report long term sickness due to stress as a health and safety issue. It said doing so would not be appropriate because “stress...

Almost a quarter of people who think they have had long Covid say it has adversely affected their household finances. And 36% of working adults who may have experienced long Covid said...

Zurich has appointed Justin Delaney as CEO for Australia and New Zealand takings responsibility for its life and investments (L&I) and general insurance (GI) businesses the countries. Delaney (pictured) is replacing Tim...

Global reinsurer PartnerRe has adopted software provider IPipeline's SSG Digital platform. Using the platform will enable PartnerRe to host multiple insurer underwriting philosophies in a single engine and facilitate fully underwritten comparison...

LV= has launched a pair of protection products to help cover the income and outgoings of people on irregular pay or working in small businesses. The insurer said the mortgage and rent...