Life cover

The Exeter reports rise in GP surgeries using electronic reports

The Exeter has revealed a significant increase in the number of GP reports being...

Royal London: cancer most common cause of CI claim

Royal London paid 99.7% of claims in 2019, totalling more than £575m and helping...

LV= resumes face-to-face medical screenings

LV= is to reintroduce face-to-face medical examinations in partnership with Square Health following the...

LV= processes £3.7m in coronavirus claims

LV= has handled £3.7m in coronavirus-related income protection and death claims to 470 individuals...

Paradigm announces sixth annual award winners

Paradigm Mortgage Services and Paradigm Protect have revealed the winners of its annual Lender...

Covid-19: LV= unveils premium reduction option

LV= is introducing a premium reduction option for existing protection policyholders. The provider said the...

Protection market expected to grow despite economic uncertainty

Advisers are expecting strong growth across the individual protection market as a whole and...

L&G reveals individual claims data for 2019

Legal & General paid out £731m across its Life, Critical Illness Cover, Terminal Illness...

Individual protection payouts at LV= top £100m

LV= paid record individual protection claims totalling £100 million during 2019. It supported more than...

LV= unveils protection payment break

LV= is introducing ‘payment break’ financial support for qualifying existing members with LV= protection...

Royal London revises higher-risk underwriting position

Royal London has made some temporary changes to its underwriting in response to the...

Covid-19: LV= makes underwriting changes to protection

LV= has introduced a range of changes to the way it underwrites income protection,...

CURA Financial Services joins Primis panel

Primis Mortgage Network has welcomed protection intermediary, CURA Financial Services, onto its panel. Advisers in...

L&G signs up to ‘Claims Charter’

Legal & General has signed up to The Protection Distributors Group (PDG) ‘Claims Charter’. Launched...
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COMMENT

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...

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The Vernon hires internal BDM to expand intermediary reach

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