Protection

6% rise in LV= individual protection payouts

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

Nearly 4m workers unsure when to buy an insurance product

13% of working people in the UK – a total of 3,952,000 based on...

Royal London improves HNW underwriting

Royal London has introduced changes to its underwriting limits. The changes focus on improving the...

The Right Mortgage reveals lending and membership details for 2023

The Right Mortgage & Protection network has revealed that it completed £6 billion of total...

iPipeline reports record week for income protection applications

iPipeline experienced its highest week for new income protection applications in a decade for...

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...

Majority of Guardian’s life insurance policies used beneficiary nomination

Guardian has published information about the take-up of its beneficiary nomination tool, Payout Planner,...

Legal & General makes executive team changes within retail division

Legal & General Retail, the savings, protection and retirement arm of L&G, has announced...

Legal & General Mortgage Club launches Referral Pro tool

Legal & General Mortgage Club has announced the launch of its new Referral Pro...

The Right Mortgage appoints new national account manager

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network and The Right DA Club has announced the...

48% of 2023 Cirencester Friendly claims were from millennials

Cirencester Friendly paid 95.8% of claims in 2023. Over the past decade, the individual...

British Friendly reveals 2023 Income Protection claims stats

British Friendly paid 89% of new Income Protection claims in 2023 and just under...

National Friendly updates its income protection policy

National Friendly has introduced a series of benefit upgrades to its income protection policies. The...

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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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Hope Capital targets refurb market with high-LTV bridging product

Hope Capital has launched a new bridging loan product offering 75% net initial advance. It...

Savvy summer sellers deliver strongest July sales since 2020

July delivered the highest number of sales agreed for this month since 2020 as...

Newcastle for Intermediaries removes age cap on standard repayment mortgages

Newcastle for Intermediaries has abolished the maximum age limit for the repayment of standard...

Rising cost of living could stall housing market activity

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