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Vitality is appointing Gary Impett as director of its corporate business to succeed the retiring Pippa Andrews. Andrews (pictured), who retires after a more than 30-year career in group risk and corporate...

Fraser Bartholomew, senior associate, health and benefits at WTW, speaks to Health & Protection about exchanging the world of international cricket for advising on health benefits, facing up to the challenge of...

Employers with expats caught up in the current Middle East conflict require effective resilience planning and need to ensure their people and their families have access to an employee assistance provider whenever...

Axa Health International has agreed a deal with MIC Global Risks to act as the sole distributor of its global executive health plan (GEHP) in Tanzania. The agreement builds on the company’s existing...

Skin Analytics, a UK health technology company specialising in AI-powered skin cancer detection, has joined the Association of Medical Insurers and Intermediaries (AMII) as a corporate member. Founded in 2012 by Neil...

Just 21% of advisers under 30 support the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in claims and 38% in underwriting. This is according to the AI section of the Protection Distribution Group's (PDG)...

Personal Group has completed the design of its new group cash plan offerings, which Health & Protection revealed in January, and plans to begin testing them shortly with direct and partner sales...

Aviva paid £1.99bn across 61,632 individual and group protection claims last year. This was up from £1.89bn across 61,975 claims in 2024. The insurer paid more than 51,000 individual protection claims last...

Iain Eagling has left Health Assured. Eagling had been sales director at the employee assistance provider since February 2023. He joined from the Access Group where he held the same role. Health...

The Protection Distributors Group’s (PDG) is challenging insurers to look at collaborative solutions to reverse what one adviser has called the ‘worst service levels seen in 20 years’. This is according to...