Guides & News

Cura presented with the Customer Service Award for the second year running, as well as co-Managing Director, Kathryn Knowles, receiving the Outstanding Achievement Award, following on from Cura’s Alan Knowles success last year, at the annual Yorkshire Financial Awards.

In this episode Andrew Montlake is joining The PPP to chat with hosts Kathryn Knowles and Roy McLoughlin about mortgages. Specifically the need to discuss protection insurance, when a mortgage is being arranged.

Hosts Kathryn Knowles and Matt Rann chat about how mental health is underwritten for things like life insurance, how the industry is responding to mental health and thoughts on how insurance offerings could be improved.

Kathryn invites Head of Underwriting Strategy at AIG, Helen Croft on to this week’s show to focus on covid and how its impacted on the underwriting process for insurances over the past year, plus more on the virus that’s dominated our lives for so long.

The Practical Protection Podcast kick starts the new year off with Season 3! In this first episode Kathryn welcomes new co-host, Roy McLoughlin, he’ll be a regular host on the podcast and together they will be bringing you the latest developments in protection insurance and more.

Kathryn chats to Zurich about how she got into insurance, her career highs and lows, and the one thing she would change about protection if she could.

This week Kathryn invites back Alan Knowles to guide us through A Masterclass in Income Protection. They’ll be discussing how versatile these policies are, and Alan focuses on some very varied case studies.

Protection Review held their annual awards and conference virtually this year, it was a jam packed morning of presentations and celebrations, with a touch of comedy thrown in the middle.