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Higher staff departure rates due to the pandemic and increased costs connected to sourcing talent from the EU a year on from Brexit are creating an extremely competitive labour market for insurers....

Zurich has launched standalone critical illness (CI) cover for customers who do not want a product combined with life insurance. It is also widening its Total Permanent Disability (TPD) definition, offering standard...

Almost three quarters (73%) of Aviva individual and group protection customers who have returned a valid annual health check through the insurer's DigiCare+ and DigiCare+ Workplace service over the past year suffer...

Royal London has enhanced its Helping Hand service to include health and wellbeing support for new customers with the add-ons going live for existing customers soon. The enhancements mean customers who purchase...

Naomi Greatorex is to replace Alan Knowles on the Income Protection Task Force's steering committee. Greatorex, the owner of Heath Protection Solutions, joins Richard Walsh, Justin Harper, Mark Jones and Setul Mehta...

Openwork is launching a private medical insurance (PMI) referral service with independent broker Usay Compare. The deal sees Usay Compare support advisers across The Openwork Partnership network to help and protect more...

The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) has appointed Jonathan Clark as interim CEO, with immediate effect. Clark is former president of the CII and the Chartered Institute of Loss Adjusters, and was CII...

The number of people awaiting treatment on hospital waiting lists in England has reached just under six million, according to NHS data. The figures for the end of November before the full...

Aviva chief financial officer Jason Windsor has resigned to join Persimmon as its CFO. Aviva said its search for a new CFO is underway and will issue a further update when appropriate....

Half of Healix's female members with access to its women's health offering have engaged with the service since its April 2021 launch, according to the healthcare trust provider. Healix noted that 77%...