Episode 8 – Income Protection Claims

Hi everyone, I have Debbie Smith who is the Chief Medical Officer at Swiss Re with me to talk about the trends that she is spotting when it comes to income protection claims. I first met Debbie at the LUCID conference earlier this year and I found her presentation fascinating. So naturally I asked if [...]

Episode 7 – Total Permanent Disability

Hi everyone, we are talking about Total Permanent Disability, a potential claimable condition on most UK Critical Illness Contracts. We are talking about how TPD claims work and also the difficulties that can be experienced in placing a claim for this condition. This episode is taking a different approach to usual. As you know we [...]

Episode 6 – Insurtech and Health Data

Hi everyone, we have Lisa Balboa back with us giving her insights into insure tech and how this could change the way that insurers underwriter insurance applications and give ongoing health support to their policyholders. We are talking about wearables and things that your smartphone can do that is absolutely brilliant, though I do find [...]

Episode 5 – Prostate Cancer

Hi everyone, we are back with Matt Rann and taking a look at prostate cancer, in perfect time for Movember. Usually when someone has cancer insurers don’t like to offer life insurance, critical illness or income protection, until the person is completely recovered. Prostate cancer is the exception (sometimes!). We are going to talk about [...]

Episode 4 – Market Trends

Hi everyone, we have Steve Baldry and Katie Dennehy with us from UnderwriteMe, talking about the changes that they have seen in the protection insurance market. There’s a lot of stats! We are looking at the types of advice that we are seeing advisers giving, the differences in consumer behaviour across genders and different age [...]

Episode 3 – Expats Insurance

Hi everyone, we have Matt Rann back with us for the first time this season and we are taking a look outside of the UK. I speak to quite a lot of people who live or work abroad for extended periods of time and this can really reduce the options for arranging insurance with a [...]

Episode 2 – Protecting the Whole Family

Hi everyone, we are fresh from the IPTF Income Protection Awareness week and I hope that it has given you some insights into having more IP conversations. I have Rich Horner from MetLife joining me in our latest episode where we reflect on IPAW 2023 and discuss ways that you can protect your clients that [...]

Episode 1 – IPTF

Hi everyone, we are back with Season 8 of the Practical Protection Podcast and today it is all about income protection. We have Jo Miller, Katie Crook-Davies and Andrew Wibberley joining us from the Income Protection Task Force. Their job is to promote income protection to consumers, encourage advisers to engage in income protection conversations [...]

Episode 14 – Kidney Disease

Hi everyone, we are going through how kidney disease can influence a person’s options for  life insurance, critical illness and income protection. We are talking about the things that underwriters need to know about your client’s kidney disease to give you an accurate indication of terms. Matt is taking us through the connections between kidney [...]

Episode 13 – Claims Data

Hi everyone, we are going through claims stats in our latest episode. Don’t worry we are not just going to be throwing a load of numbers at you, I also won’t be naming insurers either.  We are talking through how much was been paid out in protection in 2022, the successful stats rate of different [...]