Charity LegaCare has teamed up with protection stalwarts Peter Le Beau and Future Proof to further raise the profile of the charity as it embarks on piloting a new scheme.

AIG Life has created The Spencer Family - a fictitious family that the insurer will be using in communications to help advisers make protection needs more 'real' for their clients.

Fergus Bescoby discusses hearing loss and the underwriting implications for protection policies.

Steve Casey asks what underwriting would be like if the protection industry was starting from scratch today.

RedArc, providers of specialist personal nurse advisers, has partnered with Healix Health Services Ltd, to provide a Second Medical Opinion service in the UK.

Paradigm Protect, the directly authorised protection proposition linked to Paradigm Mortgage Services and Paradigm Partners, will be holding five specialist protection events across the country in the first quarter of the year.

Simplyhealth is to become the title sponsor of the UK's biggest mass participation running series - Great Run - which includes the world's largest half marathon, the Great North Run.

Emails have been hacked

Human workers at Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance are set to be replaced by an artificial intelligence (AI) that can calculate pay-outs to policyholders, according to reports.

Paul Avis explores whether group risk providers are insurers or something more.