Life cover

LV= reveals Covid-19 payouts

LV= has revealed that life insurance, critical illness and income protection claims caused by...

LV= paid out £6.5m in Covid claims last year

LV= paid record individual protection claims totalling nearly £118 million during 2020. The insurer...

LV= extends protection maximum age limits

LV= is extending its life insurance contract terms across several product lines to provide...

Royal London paid out £13m for 2020 Covid claims

Insurer Royal London paid £13.1 million to over 2,100 customers' families for Covid-19 claims...

Sourcing system offers life insurance quote platform

Iress has partnered with Codepotato to provide advisers with their own branded life insurance...

Royal London introduces new protection menu tool

Royal London has unveiled a protection tool which helps provide menu protection plans for...

LSL makes investment in life and pensions firm

LSL Property Services has announced its investment in Direct Life & Pension Services. Direct Life...

Royal London adds ‘underwrite later’ option

Royal London has added 'Underwrite Later; an option for life cover on its Business...

AIG Life appoints commercial director

AIG Life has announced the appointment of Neil Davies as commercial director. Davies has over...

L&G unveils digital-first group protection proposition

Legal & General Insurance has partnered with Salary Finance to launch Protect; a mobile-first,...

LifeQuote launches comparison service with Quilter

SmartCompare, LifeQuote’s new product comparison service, is now available to Quilter advisers, linked to their...

Owl Financial reaps rewards from online face-to-face advice

Owl Financial, Openwork’s specialist protection advice business, has arranged over 47,000 policies since the...

Connect expands protection panel

Connect for Intermediaries has added Umbrella Protect to its protection panel. Umbrella Protect will provide...

Royal London protection move “a breakthrough moment”

Royal London has added a signature-free beneficiary nomination to its individual life cover and...

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

Equity Release Council hires Tracy Gorbutt-Powell for risk and policy role

The Equity Release Council has appointed Tracy Gorbutt-Powell as head of risk, policy and...

Together appoints Legal and General Surveying Services as valuation partner

Specialist lender Together has appointed Legal and General Surveying Services as a key valuation...

1.3 million households facing mortgage cost shock

Around 1.3 million additional UK households are now exposed to higher mortgage costs following...

The Vernon hires internal BDM to expand intermediary reach

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

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