Critical Illness

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...

Broker advice “still vital” for protection consumers

New research by the Exeter has found that a clear majority of UK workers...

Co-op in life cover partnership with Legal & General

Legal & General has announced a new partnership with Co-op Insurance to offer members...

Royal London widens critical illness definitions

Royal London has widened the coverage on its critical illness cover by improving, changing...

Over 10m overestimating value of Statutory Sick Pay

32% of workers in the UK overestimate the value of Statutory Sick Pay, which...

Sesame Bankhall Group partners with HSBC Life (UK)

Sesame Network and PMS Mortgage Club, part of Sesame Bankhall Group, have announced a...

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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