Individual Protection

Business protection is as much of a must-have as personal protection - but it's up to financial advisers to show the way writes AIG Life's Andy Roberts.

Triple lock to be ditched

Aegon recently released protection claims statistics that reveal people are likely to be under protected for the amount of mortgage debt they have.

Here is the story of Mrs K from London, who had to make a claim on the life insurance policy of her partner.

Royal London has confirmed to COVER that the insurer will advance up to £10,000 to bereaved families under the Protection Distributor's Group (PDG) Funeral Pledge.

This is the second in a series of features highlighting key findings from Pacific Life Re's consumer research on consumers' perceptions of protection claims management.

CIXpert reviews Canada Life's upgrades to to the critical illness component of its CanProtect policies.

Fergus Bescoby discusses the underwriting considerations for Hydrocephalus.

Scottish Widows has published its protection claims statistics which show that it paid out 99.38% of life claims in 2016, an increase of 0.5% compared with 2015, and 93.2% of critical illness claims, an increase of 2.7%.

Two new protection products from Canada Life are to be made available to intermediaries through IRESS' The Exchange.