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Telus Health has appointed Paul Hawke as business development director. Hawke (pictured) joins from William Russell where he had been international sales manager since July of last year. He joined William Russell...

Willis Towers Watson (WTW) has appointed Eric McMurray as chairman, health, wealth and career (HWC). In his role, McMurray will support M&A readiness, strategy execution, client growth and senior leadership development. The...

Chris Carroll took over as CEO of Bupa Insurance UK at the start of the year, taking over at the helm of the UK's largest health insurer from Alex Perry who had...

Guardian insurance paid more than £21m in protection claims in 2024, up from £15m in 2023. This included 100% of life claims, 94% of terminal illness (TI) and 92% of critical illness...

Reassured has announced that the benefit paid out to customers who made life and critical illness claims in 2024 grew 34% year-on-year. In total payments reached £67m from across Reassured’s core insurer...

Three of the highest quarters for admissions paid for with private medical insurance (PMI) occurred in 2024, a year in which there were more private hospital admissions than any previous year on...

Krysalis has joined the Income Protection Task Force (IPTF). Krysalis is a neurological occupational rehabilitation service for individuals who have suffered a brain injury or struggle with neurological conditions. It launched in...

Simon Friday will start his new role as a broker sales manager with Benenden Health on 16 June. Health & Protection reported that Friday had left his position at Brown & Brown...

CIExpert has revamped its Insight Zone Dashboard. The revamped dashboard acts as an overview for the existing Insight Zone pages for critical illness (CI), income protection (IP), and life cover, by providing...

Kicking off Pride Month, Matthew Draper, technical operations manager at The OneFamily Group, speaks to Health & Protection about feeling like the odd one out earlier in his career, the gradual change...