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LV= has appointed former Bupa and Friends Life UK CEO David Hynam as its incoming chief executive, subject to regulatory approval. Hynam (pictured) has spent 30 years in financial services including the...

Almost four in 10 businesses with 50 to 249 staff believe employee health and wellbeing is their top stressor at the moment. The Legal & General Wellbeing at Work Barometer 2022 showed...

Advisers are dubious over whether government commitments to improve access to GPs will prove successful amid soaring demand for virtual GP services from customers. The commitments feature in health and social care...

Health and Social Care Secretary Thérèse Coffey has committed to maximising use of the private health sector to expand NHS capacity as part of a package of measures in the government's latest...

Cigna is withdrawing from the UK domestic private medical insurance (PMI) and healthcare trusts market, Health & Protection can reveal. At present the insurer offers group PMI schemes and healthcare trust administration...

Royal London has joined CIExpert's digital dashboard Insight Zone. The insurer's range of personal and business menu plans, including the whole of life plan and diabetes life cover, will be available in...

IPipeline has agreed a partnership with customer relationship management (CRM) software provider Plannr. The development of Plannr was funded in part by a kick-starter campaign among future users of the platform. It...

Advice firm Beckett Financial Services has joined group risk industry body Grid. Lesley Delaney, operations director at Becketts, said: "We can see so many opportunities in membership of Grid, and we’re very...

The pandemic has focused minds on our own mortality as never before - and high net worth (HNW) individuals are no different, with behvaiour shifts becoming apparent. In terms of their own...

Royal London has expanded its signature-free beneficiary nomination, an alternative to setting up a plan trust, to its whole of life plans. The feature was introduced on personal menu plans for individual...