Protection

Advisers operating in the health and protection insurance industries will not now be charged with funding the regulator’s advice guidance boundary review (AGBR). Fee rates for advisers will also be trimmed slightly...

LifeSearch has promoted Nick Rixon to the newly created position of head of business protection and expert advice. Rixon (pictured) is now responsible for the company’s business protection, wealth protection and complex...

The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) has launched a cross-sector vulnerability data sharing taskforce to help reduce the number of repeat disclosures required of vulnerable customers across the distribution chain. It brings together...

Broadstone has appointed Bethany Devin as principal consultant – health and risk within its employee benefits consulting division. Devin (pictured) joins from Everywhen where she was a principal consultant. A former a...

Artificial intelligence (AI) should be used to help advisers to do their jobs rather than replace them. This is according to advisers Health & Protection spoke to following the release of a...

Evric Davis has joined First Mortgage as a protection adviser. Davis joins from London & Country Mortgages (L&C) where he was a mortgage adviser. He joined L&C in October 2021 from Alexander...

British Friendly has appointed Simon Lodge and Nicki Webber as non-executive directors. In addition to serving on the board of British Friendly, Lodge holds a directorship at Canada Life and serves as...

Legal & General (L&G) and Perci Health have launched a toolkit aimed at helping employers improve how they support their employees who have been diagnosed with cancer. The toolkit has been designed...

The UK is lagging behind its international peers in managing chronic health conditions, according to a report from Zurich. It's research found the UK was operating in a “chronic reality”, where millions...

Lindsay Scott-Jones, protection consultant at Westways Financial, speaks to Health & Protection about taking a non-traditional route into the protection sector, the importance of focusing on client needs rather than making a...