Individual Protection
Building Resilient Households plans Universal Credit response
Lobbying group wants means-testing exemption for financial protection claims added to Resolution Foundation recommendations on Universal Credit migration
Alan Lakey: What is in a name?
Instead of 'deckchair shifting', the ABI should tidy up confusion around critical illness condition definitions
COVER Summit Video: Johnny Timpson
Financial protection technical & industry affairs manager of Scottish Widows on improving access to insurance
Re-connection campaign for 'lost policies' launched by LV=
Mutual is encouraging people speak to family members who may have taken out a policy in the past and forgotten about it
Eighty percent of over 30s at risk of heart attack - PHE
Heart conditions are 'second biggest cause of life insurance claims after cancer'
More than 35 million UK people lack financial safety net - Aegon
36% of UK households have no savings whatsoever
Parents of children with cancer not getting support needed - RedArc
Insurers should do more to assist families under strain following diagnosis, says nurse service
Holloway Friendly appoints Graham Newitt as non-exec director
Previously he was strategic consultant to firms such as Zurich, Scottish Widows and FNZ
Cirencester Friendly increases adviser commission rates
Rate changes to 'income assured enhanced' and 'my earnings insurance' following adviser feedback
Habito launches life insurance offering
Underwritten by AIG life, the service offers life insurance in as few as nine questions
CIExpert on Guardian FS launch
'Guardian's full-scale entry is bound to shake up the market,' says CIExpert
Guardian FS rolls out Protection Builder as part of launch
New entrant's life and critical illness products now available
Supreme Court rules in favour of unmarried 'widow'
Court rules government's refusal to pay benefits breached family's human rights
Should vapers be charged the same premium as smokers?
With Public Health England suggesting vaping is less harmful than smoking, Cameron Clark peers into the cloudy abyss
Pippa Keefe named director of strategic accounts for UnderwriteMe
She will promote the benefits of the quote and compare underwriting service to UK distributors and networks
AIG Life CI payout helps infant hear for first time
Story of Max Brett gets coverage in The Times, Daily Mail and on ITV's Lorraine show
Supreme Court to rule on bereavement dispute
Siobhan McLaughlin denied both a lump sum of £2,000 bereavement payment, as well as £118-a-week widowed parent allowance
Will open banking revolutionise the protection market?
Open banking has increased customer engagement across younger demographics, but can it do the same for protection? Cameron Clark investigates
Is TPD really broken?
Survey finds 20% reduction in declined claims in a decade
Guardian FS tweaks systems following adviser pilot
'Adjustments' made following feedback from distribution partners ahead of launch next week
Aegon joins UnderwriteMe
Nine major insurers now fully available on the quote and comparison service
COVER Summit Video: Guardian's Katya Maclean
The disruptor's proposition director will present her view of the protection market today at this year's COVER Protection & Health Summit
Alan Lakey: How children's critical illness cover has evolved
Insurers have competed to improve payment conditions, ages covered and specific conditions for children over the years
Aegon adds family income benefit to online protection application
Majority of people would prefer monthly income to lump sum, says survey
