Individual Protection

Protection insurance sales in Q3 2016 jumped by 8.2% (£10.5 million) to £139.3 million according to analysis from Equifax Touchstone.

Speaking at COVER's Adviser Clinic on the relevance of protection insurance today, Scottish Widows' Helen Dick discusses how to keep underwriting relevant as technology advances.

Zurich has reported a 20% increase in applications for critical illness policies during the first 9 months of 2016, with over 30,000 new policies sold during this period.

Fergus Bescoby discusses sleep disorders and the underwriting factors to consider.

Women have "less financial resilience to bounce back from financial shocks and are more likely to be trapped in poverty in later life", according to an interim report from Insuring Women's Futures (IWF.)

Some 90% of protection advisers agree that client retention is a key focus for their businesses with just under a quarter (23%) citing it as "their biggest business challenge."

Twenty7Tec has adopted iPipeline's digital sales aid with nudge capability, LifeGenie.

Redmayne Consulting's Nigel Bradshaw takes an in depth look at underwriting criteria on the major quote portals and asks where the underwriting journey is going next.

Speaking at COVER's Adviser Clinic on the relevance of protection insurance today, Scottish Widows' Johnny Timpson provides an overview of the protection landscape, welfare reform and resilience.

UnderwriteMe has been chosen by three further, high profile intermediaries: Assured Futures, Tuto and Future Proof.