News

Plum & Anorak Team Up on Income Protection

Money management app Plum has partnered with Anorak, an online broker for life insurance, income protection and critical illness cover, to support savvy savers on their financial journey for the long-run. Over the pandemic, younger earners experienced a 40% increase […]

InsureTech

Collective Benefits Raises £6m, Eyes European Expansion

Collective Benefits, the insurtech solving the protection gap for independent workers, has raised a £6m round led by NFX, a leading Silicon Valley venture fund. Alongside this investment, renowned British entrepreneur Pete Flint OBE, a […]

UK Insurance Trends

Resilience: Zurich Calls For Income Protection Schemes

New ways of protecting people from the kind of economic distress caused by the COVID-19 pandemic may be found in mandatory schemes that would provide support when hardship hits, research from Zurich Insurance Group and […]

Emerging Risk

Do You Need Loan Payment Protection Insurance?

In recent years, media attention around PPI, or Payment Protection Insurance has increased drastically. For a time, loan providers were delivering this insurance to customers without asking whether they really needed it. Some people even […]

Insurance claims

LV= Pays Out £6m In Covid Related Claims

Protection specialist LV= has paid more than £6m in coronavirus-related income protection and death claims to 573 individuals and families. The stats cover the period up to the end of August. 384 Death claims paid […]

News

Covid-19 Proves Final Straw for Estimated 240,000 Self-Employed

The August 2020 report from the Office for National Statistics, shows a record fall of self-employed people, reports Bambridge Accountants. 238,000 fewer self-employed individuals in the latest quarter (April to June 2020 compared to January to March […]