Protection

Sam Traynor, product development and pricing actuary at Shepherds Friendly, speaks to Health & Protection about encountering presumptive people early in his working life in another sector, his more positive experience in...

I recently sat on a panel about claims modernisation. The room was full of people whose job is to pay claims faster: carriers, technology vendors, a McKinsey partner moderating. We spent 40...

Employers need to act earlier to reduce the £85bn they collectively lose each year to poor health in their workforce, the Association of Medical Insurers and Intermediaries (AMII) health and wellbeing summit...

The human loop is essential to adopting new technologies and insurers will have to understand their employees’ artificial intelligence (AI) IQ when implementing changes, Health & Protection's IPMI breakfast briefing has heard....

Beagle Street has launched its first two protection products into the intermediary market – life insurance and critical illness (CI) plans. Health & Protection has key details of the products - which...

Beagle Street has formally launched into the advised protection market with its first life insurance and critical illness (CI) products. The launch follows a pilot with a group of intermediaries, whose feedback...

Aviva is transitioning more than 80% of medical examinations from traditional doctor examinations to nurse-led medical screenings. The insurer said the changes to its non-medical underwriting limits aimed to make the process...

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is no excuse for obstructing vulnerable protection customers from accessing added value services. This is according to protection industry veteran and Morgan Ash chairman Johnny Timpson (pictured),...

Fairer Finance has warned of a ‘hollowing out’ of private medical insurance (PMI) and protection products to facilitate distribution through price comparison websites. James Daley, managing director of the consumer group, warned...

The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) has published new guidance to support insurance and personal finance firms in managing data relating to customers in vulnerable circumstances.  The Data Privacy for Customers in Vulnerable...