Critical Illness

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...

VitalityLife tool helps advisers calculate healthier lifestyle benefits

VitalityLife has launched a new risk calculator designed to help advisers discuss serious illness...

TMA Club to offer critical illness software via CIExpert

TMA Club has entered into an agreement with CIExpert, a firm which analyses critical illness...

Will Greenwood supporting L&G mental health campaign

Former England rugby union player Will Greenwood has become the latest sporting celebrity to...

Protection challenger pilots with four UK distributors

New protection provider Guardian is piloting its life and critical illness proposition with four...

COMMENT

Mutual strength and the broker partnership

The mutual sector has always been associated with community purpose, local branches and a member-first approach that feels a little different to the wider...

First-time, accidental or professional? How the landlord profile is shifting in 2026

One of the most common misconceptions that people have about the buy-to-let market is that landlords are a single, uniform group. The reality is...

Complexity is rising and broker enablement has never mattered more

 For many years, success in the mortgage market was built off efficiency. If a broker understood the mainstream lending landscape, packaged cases well and kept...

Industry pushes to build next generation of home valuers

According to RICS, the average qualified surveyor is in their mid-fifties. Couple this with new entrant numbers failing to keep pace with retirements, and...

Supply side continues to drive the change agenda

Regulatory change is no longer something firms respond to periodically. It is now a permanent feature of the landscape. Whether it is capital treatment...

Latest news

The Vernon hires internal BDM to expand intermediary reach

Vernon Building Society has appointed Damien Sabbaghe as intermediary business development manager as it...

Coventry trims first-time buyer and limited company buy-to-let rates

Coventry for intermediaries has cut selected mortgage rates for first-time buyers and limited company...

TRM adds to PMI team with supervision & development manager hire

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network has appointed Gemma Penkethman as PMI supervision &...

Rental yields rise across England and Wales as buy-to-let market enters more volatile period

Rental yields increased annually in every region of England and Wales in the first...

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