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LV= paid out almost £152m and approved 95% of claims in 2025 – up from £137m and on par with the 95% figures in 2024. The approval rate for life insurance claims...

The general insurance sector can learn from their protection peers’ example with progress made on claims disclosure. But protection providers should go even further by publishing the average time taken to pay...

Bupa has promoted Jo Paice to the newly created role of chief operating officer (COO) of Bupa Health Services. The provider told Health & Protection Paice’s appointment will support the joining up...

Perci Health has been added to WTW’s supplier list as a specialist provider of cancer prevention, risk and screening services.  This enables employers to offer their employees access directly to the firm's...

Vitality has appointed Adam Murphy (pictured, right) as group chief finance officer.  Murphy will oversee finance functions across all Vitality's international operations including the UK, US, Asia and in our partner markets,...

Richard Howells is stepping down as managing director of LSL Group’s financial services division, which includes its Primis protection and mortgage network. Howells, who has been MD since February 2024, will be...

Protection and private medical and insurance products have a “vital” role to play in helping maintain improved mortality rates among middle-aged men. This is according to advisers Health & Protection spoke to...

Omni Protect has become the distributor service for directly authorised firms in the UK to offer Beagle Street's newly launched intermediary protection proposition to advisers. The agreement follows Beagle Street’s entry into...

For many globally mobile people and organisations the world appears to have become a more confusing, risky and potentially dangerous place over the last year with geopolitical movements expanding into full-on wars....

Newmedica has launched an online appointment booking service for cataract patients, powered by Healthcode’s ICE scheduling technology.  Self-funded patients can now search more than 30 Newmedica locations for the closest clinic or...