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Covéa Insurance has promoted chief operating officer Adrian Furness to chief executive officer. He succeeds James Reader, who the firm revealed is leaving the business and has no plans to take on...

Aegon has been formally accredited as a Living Wage employer. The life insurer revealed while it has informally adopted the real Living Wage with its workforce for many years, the official accreditation...

Shepherds Friendly has joined the Protection Distributors Group (PDG) claims charter. The charter incorporates a number of pledges including having a dedicated claims team to handle all telephone-based claims alongside a process...

Health insurers have revealed to Health & Protection whether their workplace schemes will cover Covid-19 testing as employers are urged to look into all options to source lateral flow tests. This follows...

While the subscription economy appears to be booming, a survey from Simplyhealth reveals just 13% of adults in the UK are paying monthly for health benefits. And it appears the vast majority...

AIG Life has appointed Michael Aitchison as chief actuary. Aitchison (pictured) joins the UK life insurance arm of AIG on 2 August and will report to chief financial officer Donald MacLean. Aitchison...

Private equity firm FPE Capital has bought employee benefits platform provider Zest Technology for an initial £10m, with a potential further £1.5m due depending on revenue delivered in the full 2021 year....

Zurich has appointed Justin Delaney as CEO for Australia and New Zealand takings responsibility for its life and investments (L&I) and general insurance (GI) businesses the countries. Delaney (pictured) is replacing Tim...

Global reinsurer PartnerRe has adopted software provider IPipeline's SSG Digital platform. Using the platform will enable PartnerRe to host multiple insurer underwriting philosophies in a single engine and facilitate fully underwritten comparison...

LV= has launched a pair of protection products to help cover the income and outgoings of people on irregular pay or working in small businesses. The insurer said the mortgage and rent...