Individual Protection

Paradigm Protect has announced the addition of Scottish Widows Protect to its protection panel.

The average cost increases for employer-sponsored private medical insurance plans globally will be 9.1 percent in 2016 - higher than the global average projected inflation rate of 3.6%, according to Aon Hewitt.

British Friendly has announced that it paid 97.8% of Income Protection claims in 2015, becoming the first insurer to publish their claims statistics for the whole of last year.

Public sector workers are under-protected compared to their private sector peers as research has revealed that just two in five (42%) breadwinners employed in health and education have a life insurance policy.

Unite members at Legal & General's flagship site in Kingswood, Surrey have voted in favour of industrial action to save over 1,500 jobs.

Munich Re's Mike Bolshaw discusses how developments in immunotherapy for cancer patients could impact terminal illness and life insurance claims.

A useful aid to stop smoking or unhealthy as normal cigarettes? Pulse Insurance managing director Paul Sandilands explains how the industry needs to treat e-cigarettes for insurance purposes

Online insurer Beagle Street has launched a TV advertising campaign featuring a talking dog to encourage more people to get life insurance.

First Complete's Toni Smith explains why her New Year's wish is to narrow the protection gap and how the industry can look at ways of achieving this.

Here is the top ten in COVER magazine's countdown of the most read protection, healthcare and employee benefits stories during 2015.