Life & Travel Insurance News

Customers of Nationwide’s current accounts who retained a legacy entitlement to free European travel insurance will lose it from 31 December 2021.The UK’s largest building society stopped offering the...

Freelance workers and other self-employed people can now ensure they have enough money to pay their rent or mortgage through periods of illness, with a new insurance product from LV=.LV='s...

A new insurance policy from Nationwide Building Society will allow workers who lack comprehensive sick pay to protect their incomes when they fall ill.The coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the...

Publicly-listed insurer Chubb has developed a product that uses mobile phone roaming data to identify where customers are travelling and activate travel cover at a daily premium.Chubb says its Pay as...

A forged document purporting to be from insurer Allianz has fuelled rumours that people who receive the COVID-19 vaccine are invalidating their life insurance policies. The Association of British...

The banking arm of the UK’s largest supermarket will resume selling travel insurance, after ducking out of the market in 2018.Tesco Bank’s travel cover will join an insurance portfolio that includes...

Holders of Bupa UK private health insurance policies will receive a rebate from the insurer this spring after medical treatment was disrupted as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.Bupa last year...

The Financial Ombudsman received more than 10,000 complaints about guarantor loans between October and December 2020, marking the first time in 13 years that payment protection insurance (PPI) hasn’t...

Holidaymakers are being encouraged to read the fine print of their travel insurance policies to see what exactly their Covid cover clauses entail before they embark.Financial information website...

Insurance provider LV= paid out £6.02 million in 384 claims on life insurance policies following coronavirus-related deaths between March and 31 August.The highest claim value was £800,000, LV=...