Protection

Axa’s life and health businesses posted an 8% increase in gross written premiums (GWP) and other revenues in the first six months of 2026, the global insurer revealed. The insurer said favourable...

Scottish Widows claimed a further increase in protection market share in the first half of the year, according to Lloyds Banking Group H1 2026 results. The banking group said its insurer brand...

Fintel, which includes SimplyBiz and specialist protection distributor Omni Protect, saw revenue remain static in the first half of 2026. The firm reported statutory revenue of £42.1m in the six months to...

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...