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National regulations are making it harder for smaller firms to expand their business into more international private medical insurance (IPMI) markets. In addressing delegates at the Health Compass Transforming the Transaction in...

Advisers need to embrace technology or face dying out, according to Lourdes Peters, president and CEO of independent benefit advisory insurance brokers World of America. According to Peters, who was addressing delegates...

Just four in 10 workers aged over 50 are prioritising their mental health at the moment, according to research from MetLife. The research, which forms part of the insurer's Re:Me report, found...

Pandemic-fuelled trauma is leading to a dramatic decline in employee concentration levels across the US, according to data from Total Brain, a mental health and brain performance self-monitoring and self-care platform. The...

The protection sector needs to do more to promote the industry as a rewarding career destination to the next generation of advisers as early as possible. This is according to Naomi Greatorex,...

A shareholder rebellion could jeopardise Australian healthcare firm Ramsay Healthcare's £1bn takeover of private healthcare provider Spire. The deal, agreed by both boards late last month, would create a combined operator of...

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has rated a Chelmsford alcohol and drug addiction service inadequate and placed it in special measures, after investigators found shortfalls in measures to ensure patient safety due...

Health technology products provided by insurers need to focus on nutrition as well as fitness, according to Tim Smith, head of protection at Hannover Re. Smith was responding to a question raised...

Advisers should choose working smarter over working harder and stop making excuses for not talking about protection with customers. This is according to industry veteran Richard Kateley, who recently retired after three...

The merger of Aon and Willis Towers Watson has been thrown into doubt as the sale of the pair's US health benefits businesses has proven "wholly insufficient" to allay the US Department...