Protection

Health & Protection is delighted to announce that Lia’s Wings is the charity partner of the UK Health & Protection Awards 2026. Lia’s Wings delivers life-saving air transfers by plane both within...

Income protection product innovation potentially holds the key to fixing the UK’s broken social care system. This is according to Johnny Timpson following new PM Andy Burnham reiterating his desire to tackling...

Working To Wellbeing is working with BW Consulting to help broaden the reach of its services to more advisers. Barry Waring set up BW Consulting in February after leaving YuLife where his...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is contacting firms operating in the insurance market whose business models “may be creating heightened risks of conflicts of interest”. The regulator also warned it was “monitoring...

There is “significant” opportunity for growth in the UK’s protection market if insurers target underserved new populations, MetLife UK head of individual protection Phil Jeynes has told Health & Protection. This means...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has urged firms to up their game to make Consumer Duty monitoring proactive and outcomes-focused. It also wants them to demonstrate how information drives action and test...

Complaints about protection and health insurance products have continued to rise with private medical insurance (PMI) and income protection (IP) seeing the greatest increases, according to the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS). Data...

The Protection Distributors Group (PDG) has said a number of important questions remain unresolved following its review of We Buy Life Policy. In response, We Buy Life Policy said it wants to...

Healthcare ranked top when it comes to premium pay outs, according to the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) general insurance (GI) value measures data for 2025. The FCA data showed that last year,...

Most men continue working despite believing that they need medical advice, according to Benenden Health. A survey of 2,000 men aged 30 and 55 discovered that two-thirds (69%) would not take time...