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Guidewire Survey Finds Consumers Want Online ID Theft & Illness Insurance

Guidewire Software, Inc. (NYSE:GWRE), the platform general insurers trust to engage, innovate, and grow efficiently, today announced the results of a UK consumer survey that shows how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting attitudes towards insurance and insurers. […]

Insurance Brokers

Advisers Survey Shows Demand for Life/Health Cover Has Increased

Financial advisers believe increased demand for individual protection products will come from parents with young families, according to new independent research for HSBC Life UK. Over half (53 per cent) of advisers surveyed highlighted parents […]

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Saga & Staysure Boldly Go into Covid-19 Cover – Includes Cruise Holidays

Saga has announced that treatment abroad for Covid-19 and repatriation to the UK will be included as standard as part of its travel insurance policies for all trips from 1st June. Saga has added the cover […]

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Men Realise They Need Income Protection Cover in Uncertain Times

The amount of men looking into income protection (IP) has reached a record high since the outbreak of Covid-19, according to protection insurance broker and comparison service ActiveQuote. More than two thirds (70%) of IP enquiries […]

Insurance claims

Aviva Publishes 2019 Life & Illness Claims Payout Data

Aviva individual protection policies paid out £981,997,431 to more than 26,500 UK customers and their families during 2019, with just 3.7% of all claims received being declined, according to the latest press info from the […]

Life/Health/Critical illness

Aegon Re-Starts NHS Medical Evidence Requests on Claims

Having stopped requests for medical evidence for protection applications to reduce pressure on the NHS at the start of the coronavirus crisis, Aegon has confirmed that they will start requesting medical evidence again in the […]

Insurance Brokers

LV= Paid Out on 94% on Life/Critical & Income Protection Claims in 2019

New stats from the LV= Press Office reveal that protection specialist LV= paid record individual protection claims totalling £100 million during 2019. LV= supported more than 8,100 claimants and their families paying 94% of all […]

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ActiveQuote Survey Says Insurers Updating Income Protection Cover

ActiveQuote, the comparison site for protection insurance, has revealed that income protection (IP) insurers are updating their terms for vulnerable policy holders and furloughed employees during the Covid-19 outbreak at ‘unprecedented’ levels. Providers are accepting […]