Canada Life's 'click-and-buy' process for individual protection is bringing life applications closer to those for motor and home insurance. We talk to Jon Ford, the firm's director of individual protection, about bridging the protection gap.

Health and wellbeing specialist teams up with health cash plan provider.

The service is available to advisers at point of client product selection.

Cura, Moneysworth and The Insurance Surgery combine for mission to provide non-standard protection advice to customers.

Benefits also include family carer, recuperation and trauma support as well as death benefit and terminal illness payment.

Customers will be able to choose between 'no cover', 'standard cover' and 'enhanced cover' for children within CIC, which can now include 12 additional child-specific conditions.

Coverage to include beard & brogue fire damage, fixie bike liability cover and bitcoin income protection.

Flexible and voluntary benefits within small-to-medium enterprises offer most effective solution for closing employment benefit gap, MetLife UK research finds.

Hinged on promises to modernise and simplify protection, the new insurer will focus on life, critical illness cover and income protection under the 200-year-old Guardian trading title.

According to a recent King's Fund report, NHS mental health trusts still lack staff and funding despite government pledges to achieve parity with physical health services by 2013.