Individual Protection

Fiona Murphy catches up with LifeSearch's chief executive Tom Baigrie for the definitive interview on his firm's growth plans and his views on the protection market

Legal & General has published claims statistics revealing that the insurer paid out £1.9 million in children's critical illness claims in 2015.

In the third in the series of monthly articles from Scottish Widows, Johnny Timpson discusses the opportunities that the recent reduction in the Lifetime Allowance gives advisers.

An estimated 1.6 million (21%) British parents haven't got life insurance, potentially because they can't deal with thoughts of their own death, according to research from the University of Sheffield and comparethemarket.com.

Royal London is urging the government to take further steps towards tackling the obesity epidemic which it believes will not be solved by the sugar tax alone.

Proposed package equals 1,000% of base salary

Deepak Jobanputra examines the question of 100% payouts in severe illness cover, and finds this isn't necessarily to the client's benefit

Unum has announced the appointment of Liz Walker, former head of key accounts, to HR director for the company's UK business.

Amanda Blanc to become UK and Ireland CEO

Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the leading cause of death both in the UK and worldwide and is responsible for more than 73,000 deaths in the UK each year writes Fergus Bescoby.