The lack of Professional Indemnity insurance availability for IFA firms is ‘the biggest threat to adviser businesses’ in 2020, the chairman of Beaufort Group Simon Goldthorpe has warned.

Insurers, professional bodies, guidance services and financial advisers revealed what they will do to support Insuring Women’s Futures, a CII-led initiative. 

An insurance claims handler has been jailed after he abused his position to steal £390,478 from his employer by diverting customer payments into his own account. 



New figures have revealed that protection specialist LV= paid record individual protection claims totalling £97.9m during 2018 – up £10m up from 2017.