Individual Protection

Bank of England governor Mark Carney has told MPs he no longer believes Brexit to be the biggest risk to the financial stability of the UK.

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has today published guidelines on electronic paperless requests for medical information from GPs that insurers need when providing protection insurance.

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.

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.

Best Insurance has launched InstaProtect - a short-term Accident, Sickness and Unemployment (ASU) policy with no exclusion periods and simplified medical underwriting terms.

British Friendly is once again the first insurer to publish their claims statistics for the whole of the previous year.

Zurich has launched a protection platform enabling advisers to apply for multiple policies in one application, COVER can exclusively reveal.