Individual Protection

Zurich Insurance Group has begun a process to bring its life and non-life insurance business closer together with a restructure of its senior management and businesses globally.

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) and Group Risk Development (GRiD) have published claims figures for the whole protection insurance industry showing that insurers paid £5bn overall to customers last year.

The Seven Families project has launched an online financial vulnerability test for the public to highlight the potential need for income protection.

British Friendly has extended the deferred period options on its short term income protection products, Short Term Protect and Breathing Space.

Andy Briggs, chief executive officer of Aviva UK Life and Chairman of Aviva Global Life, has been nominated by the Association of British Insurers' Board to become its next Chairman.

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.