Protection

Employers have been urged to improve employee benefits regardless of pay grade to develop policies that are resilient to Covid or any other emerging infectious disease. The call comes from Steve Herbert...

Almost six in 10 Canadians with disability or chronic health issues say their condition would worsen without access to their workplace benefits plan, according to research from Royal Bank of Canada Insurance....

Official data shows 376,000 people are still suffering symptoms of long Covid at least a year on from being infected, with one million experiencing the effects more than 12 weeks after recovering....

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,...