Protection

While employers see the value of group income protection (GIP) as a means of early intervention to keep employees at work and and demand for this benefit is holding up, economic pressures...

National Friendly has appointed David Morris as national account manager. Morris has more than 16 years of experience in the insurance industry, including eight years at Holloway Friendly where he was partnerships...

Legal & General has added two conditions to its group critical illness (CI) cover.. The two conditions are long-term autoimmune disease, systemic lupus erythematosus, as well as primary pulmonary arterial hypertension which...

The deadline is arriving for advisers to enter The UK Health & Protection Awards 2025. Entries can be submitted on the Awards website. Health & Protection would also like to thank all...

Scottish Widows paid out £236.6m in protection claims in 2024. This was marginally down on the £243m paid out in 2023, but up from £199m in protection claims in 2022 and £207.9m...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is consulting on ending its requirement for insurance firms to review the value of their product at least every 12 months. Under its proposal, firms would instead...

The UK group risk industry paid out £2.59bn during 2024, an increase of £99.2m compared to 2023, according to Grid – the industry body for the group risk protection sector.  There was...

Legal & General broke the £1bn in retail protection claims barrier in 2024 which included approving income protection (IP) and critical illness (CI) claims that had been on risk for just a...

The Income Protection Task Force (IPTF) has added Empath_AI as its tenth new member of 2025. Research shows that up to one-third of callers to regulated contact centres may have unidentified vulnerabilities....

Almost all life cover applications with asthma, back pain and osteoarthritis disclosures were instantly accepted by insurers in 2024. The findings, taken from UnderwriteMe’s Protection Platform Pulse Report 2024, showed that life...