Protection

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...

The cost of the average funeral has gone down in the UK for the first time since at least 2004. This is according to life insurer SunLife's 2022 Cost of Dying Report...

Higher staff departure rates due to the pandemic and increased costs connected to sourcing talent from the EU a year on from Brexit are creating an extremely competitive labour market for insurers....

Zurich has launched standalone critical illness (CI) cover for customers who do not want a product combined with life insurance. It is also widening its Total Permanent Disability (TPD) definition, offering standard...

Almost three quarters (73%) of Aviva individual and group protection customers who have returned a valid annual health check through the insurer's DigiCare+ and DigiCare+ Workplace service over the past year suffer...

Royal London has enhanced its Helping Hand service to include health and wellbeing support for new customers with the add-ons going live for existing customers soon. The enhancements mean customers who purchase...

Naomi Greatorex is to replace Alan Knowles on the Income Protection Task Force's steering committee. Greatorex, the owner of Heath Protection Solutions, joins Richard Walsh, Justin Harper, Mark Jones and Setul Mehta...

This year marks a decade since the implementation of gender neutral rates were enforced on the UK insurance market following the Test Achats case that stopped insurers charging different male and female...