Protection

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is "progressing at pace" to find a successor for director of insurance Matt Brewis with its recruitment campaign now closed. The regulator has been searching for Brewis'...

The vast majority of UK businesses are concerned about the impact of long-term and short-term employee sickness. This is according to research from MetLife UK which found 88% held these concerns about...

Guardian has dramatically cut the length of time applicants for life and critical illness (CI) policies must have lived in the UK and been registered with a doctor. From today applicants for...

Oneglobal Broking has acquired distributor Life and Annuity Services, Bermuda for an undisclosed sum. Completion of the deal is subject to regulatory approval. Headquartered in Bermuda, Life and Annuity Services specialises in...

Paradigm Protect has added access to Defaqto’s critical illness cover (CIC) comparison software as part of a new switching compliance audit service. The firm has introduced two options for its switching compliance...

Best Insurance has launched a single life insurance product in collaboration with mutual insurer Shepherds Friendly. The product is available on a single life decreasing or level term basis only and is...

Manual workers remain the least protected demographic when it comes to income protection (IP) despite being fearful of experiencing accidents at work, according to research. National Friendly research found just 4% of...

Unum UK has launched a digital platform enabling its group protection and health cash plan employer customers to access service usage data and health trends. In addition to product-specific content, UnumSync users...

Legal & General has added Perci Health’s cancer support service to its Spark platform for group risk customers launched this summer. Alongside the move Perci Health published research showing young adults were...

Insurers need to investigate every possible avenue to find out the root causes of why employees have fallen out of work before they can identify them as 'gaming the system', according to...