Protection

Patients are facing a “double whammy” of delays, GPs have warned, as many struggle to meet demand for appointments and waiting times for vital cancer tests continue to mount up. Almost two...

Legal & General paid £42.8m of life insurance claims in the UK for Covid-19 between March 1 and December 1, 2020. The provider confirmed that the figure represents 99% of all Covid-19...

Early estimates of the number of individuals who suffer from so-called “long-Covid” have been released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), suggesting that it could have impacted more than 150,000 people....

LV= is giving up its mutual status and is selling its savings & retirement and protection businesses to Bain Capital, the private equity firm, for £530m. The deal follows the sale, for...

Aviva has appointed Doug Brown, the current CEO of Canada Life, as CEO of its UK & Ireland Life Insurance business. Brown succeeds Angela Darlington who has decided to ‘move away from...

IPipeline, the digital solutions and services provider for the protection industry, has launched a new online self-serve tool designed to allow advisers to receive an indicative underwriting decision for their clients before...

The vast majority of financial advisers believe that protection insurers should be more willing to pay out sums to clients who are diagnosed with incurable cancers, a poll suggests. A poll of...

One in five people in Britain say their income has fallen over the past three months – and more than one in four expect their financial situation to worsen over the next...

Paul Brencher, managing director of individual protection at Aviva UK, has been appointed as the new chair of the Association of British Insurers’ Protection Board. Brencher (pictured), who succeeds outgoing chair Dominic Grinstead...

Aviva has introduced a number of changes designed to help to speed up the onboarding of protection customers, following a review of its non-medical limits. From this month, its protection products -...