Protection

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...

Unum UK has appointed John Hyde as chief marketing officer. Hyde joins Unum’s executive committee from Hastings Direct where he was head of growth products and previously spent nine years at Legal...

Complaints about income protection (IP) insurance dropped by a fifth in the first three months of the 2021-22 financial year, according to the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS). Overall complaints regarding the health...

Starting income protection (IP) conversations, signposting to specialists and sharing positive stories around claims are just some of the pledges made by leading personalities of the protection industry. To round off Income...

It could take more than ten years for NHS cancer services in England to recover from the impact pandemic, according to a report from the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR). The...

Insurers need to get more creative in designing income protection (IP) cover for people who have suffered cancer or heart disease, according to Royal London. The insurer told the Income Protection Taskforce’s...

Advisers should not assume their client cannot access income protection (IP) cover if they have pre-existing medical conditions, AIG Life has said. Helen Croft, head of underwriting strategy at AIG Life explained...

Added services are a key determining factor to people favouring one protection policy over another, according to research from Hymans Robertson. And while more than a third of people (39%) were more...