Protection

The health and protection insurance sector is making significant progress in introducing initiatives aimed at improving diversity across insurers and intermediaries alike. Organisations are trying to recruit more diverse workforces by removing...

MetLife is seeing the first signs of a return to normality due to an increase in claims for sports related activity in recent months. Rich Horner, head of individual protection at the...

HealthyHealth Group has closed a $10m (£7.08m) series A financing round and changed its name to Qumata. The firm works with insurers to help price life or health insurance policies using digital...

Anorak has raised £5m in its latest funding round. The life insurance advice platform revealed this latest round was led by Outward VC, with Triple Point Ventures and existing investor Kamet Ventures...

IPipeline has added the Vitality serious illness cover comparison tool to the compare quality service element of its protection quote and apply portal. The move means advisers can compare Vitality’s serious illness...

Sesame Bankhall Group has appointed Craig Ross to the newly created role of propositions director, to lead  expansion of its wealth, protection, later life, and mortgage services to directly authorised firms and...

Half of level term assurance policies sold in 2020 were unadvised as the market share for these channels continued to grow, Swiss Re’s Term and Health Watch found. According to the data,...

Aegon UK has launched a new discretionary trust form aimed at making it quicker and easier for advisers and their clients to place personal protection and whole of life policies in trust....

LV= is extending its doctor services to include spouses and partners of protection policyholders. The services provides policyholders with access to six expert medical services on its app or by calling Square...

Individual protection policy sales fell by 1.2% to 2,157,263 in 2020, according to Swiss Re’s latest Term and Health Watch report, the first fall since 2013. The reinsurer’s data, produced in association...