Individual Protection

The British Insurance Brokers' Association (BIBA) has highlighted the challenges and pressures of small brokers to government representatives.

Technology provider 1st Exchange has called for the industry to use plain language to ensure product information is jargon free and more accessible to consumers.

More than eight in ten Britons have made no provision for their funeral costs, new research suggests.

The FSA has proposed changes to its complaints handling procedure as it reveals pure protection grievances continued to grow in the first half of the year.

To mark the launch of Medicals Direct International (MDI) the company has signed as a main sponsor of a major international conference for insurance underwriters.

Aegon will retain its UK life insurance and protection businesses after outlining the latest stage of plans to cut costs by 25%.

Friends Provident is unveiling a new protection toolkit and a website which it says has been developed in response to feedback from advisers

Swiss Re has revealed a €10tr gap in European life insurance coverage and believes the industry needs to be bolder in selling the affordability and benefits of life cover.

Protection specialists have welcomed the conclusions on the sale of pure protection released today by the FSA in PS10/13.

The FSA has confirmed group business is exempted from commission disclosure requirements laid out in PS10/13, since it was not the intention of the RDR to bring commercial group risk into its scope.