Protection

Unum UK's Help@hand digital health and wellbeing app has seen a 91% increase in registrations over the last 12 months, compared to the previous year. Within the same period, user interactions rose...

The Openwork Partnership has added MetLife’s standalone policy ChildShield product to its protection advice proposition for its more than 4,500 advisers. The product covers children from birth up to the age of...

Holloway Friendly head of underwriting and claims Helen Jacobs has told advisers they should contact her if they feel the mutual is not meeting its eight underwriting promises. Jacobs (pictured) told Health...

The issue of regulation within the employee assistance programme (EAP) industry has always been a contentious topic. Proponents of more regulation insist that it will provide a consistent level of quality, confidentiality,...

Holloway Friendly has made eight underwriting promises to advisers and their clients including attempting to match better terms from other insurers and for advisers to challenge it if they disagree with a...

BrokerIQ Solutions has launched the full version its Your Advisor Here (YAH) customer relationship management (CRM) software. It is an extension of the application and offers advisers their own customised app linked...

Legal & General has seen an 11% increase in UK protection sales in the first half of 2024, driven by its group risk business, compared to the same period last year. However,...

HSBC Life UK has promoted Richard Waters to head of protection distribution. Waters (pictured) has spent more than 30 years at HSBC having started as an insurance broker at the bank in...

Iress has added ex-smoker questions for its term and critical illness comparison service on The Exchange sourcing platform. The feature, supported at launch by Aviva and Royal London, aims to promote greater...

The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) should create talent attraction ambassadors (TAA) to encourage young talent into the sector. The recommendation features among a series of calls to the CII by authors of...