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Assured Futures completes rebrand to Howden Life and Health
WEB08 November 2023 • 1 min read. Assured Futures, the specialist life and health insurance intermediary business of Howden, has completed its rebranding to Howden Life and Health. Acquired by the Howden Group in 2020, the intermediary specialises in life insurance, private medical insurance, income protection, accident sickness and unemployment ...
AIG Life overhauls underwriting rules engine with 50+ changes
WEB27 November 2023 • 4 min read. AIG Life has unveiled a new underwriting rules engine (URE) and enhanced intermediated underwriting journey with more than 50 improvements. Both are built around the Financial Conduct Authority's Consumer Duty principles, with the aim of helping even more people to get, and understand, the protection insurance ...
John Brazier: One last thing before I go… - Cover Magazine
WEBJohn Brazier. 10 November 2023 • 5 min read. John Brazier shares his thoughts on his time as editor of COVER and issues a final call to action for the protection industry going forward. There are any number of ways to say goodbye, most of them far too cliched for me to indulge in here, so in my final article for COVER I thought I'd offer my ...
Bupa rolls out new wellbeing services for policyholders
WEB24 November 2023 • 2 min read. Bupa UK Insurance is rolling out new preventative and proactive wellbeing products and services for all its health insurance policyholders, which will be available from January 2024. These services have been introduced to identify potential risks earlier and to take action towards better health, Bupa detailed.
Partner Insight: "Having protection in place can mean the …
WEBNov 7, 2023 — Becoming a parent, getting married, or buying a first home are the traditional milestones for clients starting to consider life and critical illness cover. For clients who don't have dependants or a partner to cover, life and critical illness cover can seem like an unnecessary expense but having some cover in place is just as important. That's ...
Partner Insight: We can no longer ignore later life care needs
WEBMar 27, 2024 — With an inexorable rise in conditions requiring later-life care and the public sector already under pressure, it's time for the protection sector to step up and do more to support clients prepare for the future, writes VitalityLife Managing Director Justin Taurog.
L&G award winners revealed - Cover Magazine
WEBMay 22, 2024 — The awards, which were hosted at One Moorgate Place, also included numerous speakers from the industry and beyond, including: James Shattock, MD UK protection, Legal & General; Beth Sutton-Evans, marketing campaign manager, Legal & General; David Mead, head of protection, St James's Place; and Clive Myrie, journalist and presenter, BBC, among ...
COVER's best read stories of 2023 part 1: Deals, FCA warning and …
WEB14 December 2023 • 4 min read. At the end of an eventful year, COVER looks back at some of the most read stories on the site that really engaged our readers. Consolidation continued apace in the sector this year with a number of big deals reigniting competition concerns. Meanwhile, advisers and providers faced regulatory upheaval following ...
Royal London updates cancer underwriting - Cover Magazine
WEB29 July 2024 • 2 min read. Mutual insurer, Royal London, has updated its cancer underwriting with a focus on broadening access to cover and aiming to close the protection gap for those previously diagnosed with cancer. The insurer says the changes are designed to increase the number of instances it can offer critical illness (CI) and income ...