The protection insurance industry needs to rethink its use of ‘impaired lives’

Cura Managing Director, Alan Knowles, writes for COVER Magazine on the importance of the language being used, when describing people’s health whilst in the process of applying for protection insurance.
Stop shying away from female conditions

Cura Managing Director, Kathryn Knowles, writes for Money Marketing on why advisers shouldn’t shy away from female conditions.
The PPP – Don’t Forgot Protection

In his first episode as solo host, Roy interviews Lee Robertson from Octo Members, covering wealth management, protection insurance, signposting and more.
Vaccine could ease Covid underwriting restrictions

Cura Managing Director, Kathryn Knowles, shares her thoughts with Financial Adviser on how the vaccine could ease Covid underwriting restrictions.
How and why women must protect their financial affairs

Cura Managing Director, Kathryn Knowles, shares her views in the Independent, on the financial value that women assign to themselves, and why protecting that is so important.
The PPP – Endometriosis

This episode takes it back to protection insurance underwriting and the focus is upon endometriosis. This is a condition that is far more common than you’d think and with half of an adviser’s client base being female, it’s certainly a condition that needs to be looked at in more depth.
Yorkshire Financial Awards 2021

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.
The PPP ‘Protecting Your Mortgage’

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.
The PPP ‘Mental Health During Lockdown’

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.
The PPP ‘Covid Insights’ from an underwriting perspective

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.













