Individual Protection

Now that the dust has settled after the consultations on the Green Paper and the new single financial guidance body (SFGB) it is time to look forward to how we can make progress towards making the households of the UK resilient in the event of sickness...

There has been a 'resilient' performance of the protection market in 2016 with sales of £521.0 million, up from the 2015 total of £457.3 million (+13.9%), Equifax Touchstone analysis has revealed.

Lutine, the niche and specialist life division of Ryan Direct Group, is launching a new business protection product to help businesses to protect themselves from the financial impact of losing a key talent, an executive or business partner due to illness,...

VitalityLife has made three enhancements to its Serious Illness Cover product that the insurer believes will lead to "more claims and, therefore, more pay outs for customers."

The Exeter has revealed that it paid 94% of all income protection claims received during 2016 as it published claimant case studies alongside claims data for the first time.

What do people value about protection insurance? It may be a basic question but a survey this week brought home the need for us to be creative in how we think about engaging our customers, writes Andrew Wibberley.

The typical person entering residential care will face total bills of between £50,000 and £93,000 depending on where they live, according to analysis by Royal London.

The 'Big Ideas' competition has selected its preliminary list of finalists to pitch in a Dragon's Den- style event in London with a chance of winning £10,000.

Friendly society PG Mutual has launched a new logo to "represent the modern 'mutual' it feels a friendly society in 2017 should reflect "

Fiona Murphy talks to Dr. Bippon Vinayak about why he launched Square Health, his plans for working with the protection industry, speeding up the screening process through IFAs and how his background in plastic surgery earned him the nickname 'the Rhinoplasty...