Appointments / Industry

Scottish Widows is trialling the use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems with the aim of speeding up life and critical illness insurance claims and underwriting. Using AI and natural language processing (NLP),...

Benenden Health supported its members’ health and wellbeing needs 180,451 times in 2024, up 4.2% (173,079) on 2023. The not-for-profit healthcare provider further revealed that the number of appointments booked for its...

To mark Dementia Action Week, Health & Protection speaks to Kathryn Knowles, co-managing director at Cura Financial Services (pictured), about the shock of finding out her dad had Parkinson's-related dementia after her...

The deadline is today for advisers to enter The UK Health & Protection Awards 2025. Entries can be submitted on the Awards website. Those entries begun today can be completed over the...

Telus Health has bought wellbeing provider Workplace Options in a deal worth around $420m, with around $350m in cash and $70m worth of assumed debt. Private equity investor GTCR will be investing...

Lindsey Rix-Broom, CEO of Canada Life UK is to become the CEO for Europe for parent company Great-West Lifeco, as of 1 July.  The insurer said Rix-Broom (pictured) would continue to lead...

Simon Friday, employee benefits manager at Brown & Brown, is leaving the company. Friday worked for a total of seven years at Advo and then Brown & Brown (previously Premier Choice Healthcare)....

Rosemount Financial Solutions (IFA) has added seven new adviser firms to its network during the first quarter of the year. The new advisers who joined Rosemount between January and March 2025 were:...

While employers see the value of group income protection (GIP) as a means of early intervention to keep employees at work and and demand for this benefit is holding up, economic pressures...

National Friendly has appointed David Morris as national account manager. Morris has more than 16 years of experience in the insurance industry, including eight years at Holloway Friendly where he was partnerships...