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Financial services firm Sun Life Financial has agreed to acquire US medical intelligence and healthcare navigation provider Pinnacle Care International for $85m (£61m). Maryland-based PinnacleCare has more than 170 employees and 20...

The 2021 version of the PMI Handbook, the 254-page reference tool for information on the different PMI plans available in the UK market, has now launched. The PMI Handbook offers a comprehensive...

Employers have been urged to resist 'over medicalising' normal human reactions to the pandemic. The warning comes from Christine Husbands, managing director of nurse-led wellbeing support service RedArc. Husbands told Health &...

Too much corporate 'noise' is stopping employees from engaging with group protection policies, according to research from insurer Legal & General. The research, released this morning, finds while two-thirds (66%) of employers...

Global health service company Cigna Europe is joining the the Association of Medical Insurers and Intermediaries Transfer of Personal Data Initiative, an agreement to adopt the electronic transfer of underwriting direct between...

US health insurance firm Brella Insurance has raised a $15m (£10.8m) Series A funding round led by Brewer Lane Ventures to bring its supplemental health solution to employers across the US. Brella's...

Dave Middleton, formerly of Aon and Portus Consulting, has succeeded Stuart Scullion as executive chair of the Association of Medical Insurers and Intermediaries (AMII). Middleton's appointment was announced at AMII's second virtual...

Spain is to enable employers to organise Covid vaccinations of staff through mutual insurance companies. The Local reports the country's social security minister José Luis Escrivá announced earlier this week that his...

Six insurers have signed up to the Fintech Pledge, tech platform Tech Nation has revealed. Tech Nation revealed Admiral, Aviva, Brit, esure, Lloyd’s and Munich Re Digital Partners signed up to the...

A group of 70 MPs including Diane Abbott, Ian Blackford and Jeremy Corbyn, have come out to oppose the takeover of nearly 50 GP practices by US health insurance firm Centene. The...