Protection

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is proposing a climate-related financial disclosure regime to increase transparency and “enable clients and consumers to make considered choices”. The move is the latest step in the...

LV= has revealed the details behind two claims it declined to illustrate to advisers the importance of ensuring their clients take cover when healthy and fully divulging any conditions at application. The...

AIG Life has today removed the last of its individual protection Covid underwriting restrictions and returned its criteria to pre-pandemic levels for all but the largest sums assured. While AIG's UK life...

National regulations are making it harder for smaller firms to expand their business into more international private medical insurance (IPMI) markets. In addressing delegates at the Health Compass Transforming the Transaction in...

Advisers need to embrace technology or face dying out, according to Lourdes Peters, president and CEO of independent benefit advisory insurance brokers World of America. According to Peters, who was addressing delegates...

LV= has revealed it paid more than £15.6m in cancer-related claims during the first five months of the year but is expecting that to rise sharply during the second half of 2021....

Just four in 10 workers aged over 50 are prioritising their mental health at the moment, according to research from MetLife. The research, which forms part of the insurer's Re:Me report, found...

Pandemic-fuelled trauma is leading to a dramatic decline in employee concentration levels across the US, according to data from Total Brain, a mental health and brain performance self-monitoring and self-care platform. The...

The protection sector needs to do more to promote the industry as a rewarding career destination to the next generation of advisers as early as possible. This is according to Naomi Greatorex,...

Health technology products provided by insurers need to focus on nutrition as well as fitness, according to Tim Smith, head of protection at Hannover Re. Smith was responding to a question raised...