Insurer
Zurich pays 97% of life protection claims in H1
Nearly half of income protection claims for mental health
Aviva CEO Mark Wilson steps down
He will remain with the group until April 2019 to assist with transition
COVER Excellence Awards 2018: All winners revealed!
Which providers and intermediaries took prizes last night?
Mari-Lizette Malherbe appointed Munich Re UK Life CEO
Commercial director replaces Andy Batley as chief executive officer of UK & Irish life reinsurance business
Emma Thomson joins British Friendly
Former life office relationship director for LifeSearch 'delighted to be joining one of the most innovative companies in the protection market'
Zurich UK appoints Helen Pickford as CFO
Previous deputy chief financial officer and member of PRA's practitioner panel replaces James Quin
Munich Re UKLB appoints Paul Morden as CFO
He replaces Hugh Karp as chief financial officer of UK life branch
Vitality UK parent company reports 17% profit growth
New business across VitalityHealth and VitalityLife increases by 12%
Zurich launches protection platform with new products
Signature-free service offers instant cover online, real-time updates and immediate alerts from third parties
Re-connection campaign for 'lost policies' launched by LV=
Mutual is encouraging people speak to family members who may have taken out a policy in the past and forgotten about it
UnderwriteMe overhauls questionnaire and integrates Defaqto
Price comparison tool switches from insurer questionnaire format to customized style with 'catch-all questions' to reduce sales time
More than 35 million UK people lack financial safety net - Aegon
36% of UK households have no savings whatsoever
Holloway Friendly appoints Graham Newitt as non-exec director
Previously he was strategic consultant to firms such as Zurich, Scottish Widows and FNZ
Frank O'Neill departs Swiss Re
He served as CEO for Swiss Re UKI since 2016
The Right Mortgage adds Guardian FS to panel
Protection challenger's products now available via iPipeline's SolutionBuilder
Anorak teams up with open banking app Starling
Technology will allow Starling customers to buy personalised life insurance policies via mobile finance app
Habito launches life insurance offering
Underwritten by AIG life, the service offers life insurance in as few as nine questions
Guardian Financial Services officially opens to UK market
Insurer offering life and critical illness through advisers aims to grow protection market by £700m
CIExpert on Guardian FS launch
'Guardian's full-scale entry is bound to shake up the market,' says CIExpert
Cornish Mutual retains chartered status for sixth year running
Insurers must surpass the CII's benchmarks for professionalism and capability in order to earn status
Guardian FS rolls out Protection Builder as part of launch
New entrant's life and critical illness products now available
Supreme Court rules in favour of unmarried 'widow'
Court rules government's refusal to pay benefits breached family's human rights
Darcey Bussell and AXA PPP partner up for National Fitness Day
Strictly Come Dancing judge will host a series of classes at The Guildhall in London's Square Mile
Supreme Court to rule on bereavement dispute
Siobhan McLaughlin denied both a lump sum of £2,000 bereavement payment, as well as £118-a-week widowed parent allowance
