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Seven in 10 large companies say they find it difficult to ensure communication of health and wellbeing support is always relevant to employees, according to research from Towergate Health & Protection. The...

Aviva has launched a cost of living support scheme allowing existing individual protection customers to cut the value of their cover. However policyholders will need to answer medical questions later if they...

Healix has appointed Sharon Burgess in the newly created role of operations director.  Burgess (pictured) joins from Axa Health where she was corporate customer service manager, having previously held a similar role...

Cost pressures on SMEs and the economic environment are driving business worries for workplace protection advisers, but the growing interest of health and wellbeing is countering these concerns. More than half (55%)...

Legal & General Retail has made a series of updates to its critical illness (CI) proposition including increased payments for terminal illness and children's CI claims. Guaranteed insurability options (GIOs) have also...

Guardian is launching its first income protection (IP) product with a roll out set for the coming weeks. The product will be available to all advisers using IRESS, IPipeline and LifeQuote product...

Spiralling inflation and energy costs have combined to create a cost of living crisis in which some people have been left with a choice between eating and heating. As a result, some...

British Friendly paid 90% of new income protection (IP) claims in 2022 and just over £5m to its members in income protection and discretionary BF Care claims. British Friendly paid 1,193 claims...

Unum UK paid a total of £395m in claims in 2022, up £29m on 2021, with around £216m of the total being for group income protection (GIP). However it warned that the...

Abbie Marlow, client manager at Swiss Re, speaks to Health & Protection about trying to find a vocation which would make use of analytical skills gained at university, not giving up on...