Protection

LV= tackles issue of insurance misrepresentation

LV='s latest Fuel for Life report highlights how support from advisers during the application...

HSBC Life UK joins PRIMIS panel

HSBC Life UK has joined the PRIMIS network’s protection provider panel. The appointment means PRIMIS...

New protection development team member for TRM network

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network has announced the appointment of a new protection...

HLPartnership hosts business-building webinar

HLPartnership is hosting a webinar event on Wednesday 19 June to help entrepreneurs decide whether...

Guardian ups critical illness additional payout limits

Guardian has increased the amount it will pay when a policyholder is diagnosed with...

British Friendly unveils Children’s Critical Illness Cover

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

Employer communication over cancer in the workplace needs to improve

21% of UK employees who have, or have had, cancer in the workplace have...

Towergate reveals top employee health and wellbeing issues

74% of employers stated that they offer more health and wellbeing support now than...

OneFamily’s Over-50s life cover now live on Iress’s The Exchange

Iress has announced that OneFamily has added its five star Defaqto-rated Over 50s life...

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...

Royal London strengthens income protection proposition

Royal London has made a series of updates to strengthen and expand the flexibility...

The Exeter reveals Heath MOT take-up

The Exeter has published new data around its recently launched Health MOT service and...

LV= appoints protection proposition director

LV= has appointed Gary Beyer as its new protection proposition director. Beyer will join LV=...

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Economic uncertainty weighing on business borrowers

Taken as a whole, Atom bank’s SME Pulse for Q2 shows the current robust health of demand in the commercial market. Around 95% of the...

Could a move to ‘enhanced advice’ also mean mandatory protection conversations?

The FCA’s recent Mortgage Market Discussion Paper (DP25/2) has got the industry talking about ‘enhanced advice’ – an idea that certain customers, such as...

Take off the rose-tinted glasses and stop chasing a rate cut

Every six weeks the financial world raises its eyebrows at the prospect of a rate cut, causing celebration when the Monetary Committee duly obliges. There...

URGENT! AI Is coming for you. Or maybe not…

I’ll try to make this as straight to the point as I can. The way that your prospective customers find you via online search...

Mind the gap: Can mortgage advice change the game for protection?

Many industry insiders still talk about the UK protection gap and how vast it is. The numbers speak for themselves with the estimated value of...

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Rising cost of living could stall housing market activity

The rising cost of living remains the most pressing concern for Britons and could...

The Mortgage Works cuts switcher rates for existing landlords

The Mortgage Works has announced reductions of up to 0.25 percentage points on selected...

Homeowners stay put as remortgaging nears parity with home purchases

Britain’s homeowners are increasingly choosing to refinance rather than move, with remortgage activity now...

Co-operative Bank in sub-4% mortgage arena following rate cuts 

The Co-operative Bank for Intermediaries has reduced selected residential and buy-to-let mortgage rates, bringing...