Critical Illness

British Friendly unveils Children’s Critical Illness Cover

British Friendly has launched Children’s Critical Illness Cover as an optional benefit which can...

2023 a record year for AIG Life protection payouts

AIG Life paid out a record £394m in protection insurance claims in 2024. The firm helped...

Advisers see 2024 as good year for protection growth

iPipeline has reported that 47% of the advisers in the UK who responded to...

Zurich unveils Accelerate service for protection customers

Zurich has teamed up with Further to provide a investigation and treatment service for...

Value Added Benefits helping with mental health conversations

New research from HSBC Life (UK) has found that Value Added Benefits (VABs) as...

Legal & General updates critical illness cover

Legal & General has updated its Critical Illness Cover (CIC) product proposition, as it...

Mortgage Advice Bureau adds Guardian to protection panel

Mortgage Advice Bureau has welcomed Guardian onto its protection panel. As a new addition to...

6% rise in LV= individual protection payouts

Mutual insurer LV= paid individual protection claims totalling £135m during 2023, up 6% since...

L&G reveals record retail protection claims payouts

Legal & General has revealed that it paid out an average of over £2.5...

Consumers outline expectations around critical illness cover upgrades

Recent research has found that two-thirds of consumers say that if a critical illness...

Two new providers for Stonebridge protection panel

Stonebridge, the national mortgage and insurance network, has announced insurers, Guardian and Zurich, have...

Royal London appoints group COO

Royal London has announced the appointment of Peter Josse as its new group chief...

Towergate Health & Protection adds Solutions Healthcare to boost Scottish presence

Solutions Healthcare Ltd, a whole of market healthcare insurance broker, serving commercial clients and...

HSBC Life (UK) makes positive mental illness underwriting change

HSBC Life (UK) has introduced new digital rules for mental illness disclosures made during...

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The sourcing system effect in specialist lending

In specialist lending, the right fit for a client has never been as simple as picking the top rate from a list. In sectors like...

Why the Renters’ Rights Bill should be a wake-up call for advisers and landlords

The Renters’ Rights Bill is shaping up to be one of the most significant legislative changes to the private rented sector (PRS) in decades. Expected...

Living in a box. Am I living in a cardboard box?

More young people are living with their parents than ever before. The bank of Mum and Dad has evolved into the hotel of Mum and...

Accountants, brokers and the clash of expectations

There’s an old accountant’s joke about financial advisers: the difference between us is that advisers want to look richer than their clients, while accountants...

Rachel Geddes: Redefining what’s possible for brokers and borrowers

When Rachel Geddes picked up the phone after a job interview to ask her mum what a mortgage was, she didn’t realise she was...

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Chetwood Bank puts Alan Cleary back in the driving seat

Chetwood Bank has announced it has appointed respected industry expert Alan Cleary as interim...

Mortgage industry rallies behind Christmas charity concert

Momentum is building fast behind this year’s Christmas charity concert in aid of EveryYouth...

First-time buyers put at the heart of Treasury mortgage talks

The government will urge lenders to put first-time buyers at the top of their...

Target urges lenders to treat mortgage servicing as a strategic asset

Target Group has called on mortgage lenders to rethink their approach to servicing, arguing...