Critical Illness

L&G encourages protection language rethink

Legal & General wants the insurance sector to reconsider the way it talks and...

Advisers worried about under-protection for the self-employed

MetLife research indicates that the rise of self-employment is helping drive sales of individual...

Payout high for MetLife’s MultiProtect policy

MetLife UK has reveals that during 2018 it paid a protection claim every hour,...

L&G and Police Mutual agree protection partnership deal

Legal & General and Police Mutual have agreed a three-year protection partnership. The arrangement will...

Protection is still undervalued

New Legal & General research has found the value of protection continues to be low. 52%...

Scottish Widows unveils new life and critical illness range

Scottish Widows has created a new life and critical illness product range designed to...

MetLife in protection partnership with iPipeline

MetLife has announced a strategic partnership with iPipeline to grow the distribution of its...

VitalityLife unveils new mortgage plan

VitalityLife has launched a new Mortgage Plan, specifically designed for mortgage protection. Alongside this, VitalityLife...

L&G improves group critical illness proposition

Legal & General has made a number of updates across its group critical illness...

Royal London broadens critical illness cover

Royal London has made changes to its critical illness cover (CI) for three of...

Scottish Widows Protect joins PRIMUS protection panel

PRIMIS has added Scottish Widows to its protection panel. The move provides members of...

Legal & General updates critical illness cover

Legal & General has made changes to its Critical Illness Cover (CIC), to its...

Cancer costs economy £9.3bn

The four biggest critical illnesses in the UK take more than £15bn a year...

One million customers told to check critical illness cover

Phoenix, the UK’s largest specialist consolidator of closed life and pension funds, has contacted...

COMMENT

Working up those income streams

Some might say the UK labour market has lost some of its confidence. Unemployment is rising, job moves have slowed, and many employers are...

Ignore the Gen Z worker stereotypes – the future is bright

The office fridge. Full of 12 types of milk, none derived from cows, and four on the work top, at room temperature. As for...

Reframe Cancer 2026 trends: prevention to take centre stage

This year is already shaping up to be one when prevention is taking centre stage. The Government recently announced the expansion of its WorkWell...

The mortgage protection gap advisers can’t ignore

The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) consumer research findings published late last year, offered an insight into what the protection industry can expect from the...

Cashback, remortgages and adviser opportunity in 2026

A recent flood of mortgage products into the market offering cashback prove it has moved from the margins of the remortgage market to the...

Latest news

The Coventry cuts selected intermediary residential fixed rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced a number of residential fixed-rate products for new and...

Mortgage Advice Bureau completes acquisition of Dashly

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has completed the acquisition of technology and data company Dashly,...

The Buckinghamshire lowers rates across key ranges

Buckinghamshire Building Society has cut rates across a wide spread of residential and buy-to-let...

FCA finds protection market delivering good outcomes, says TPFG

The Property Franchise Group PLC (TPFG) has responded to the publication of the Financial...

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