Appointments / Industry

Ocushield has announced that former Axa Health CEO Keith Gibbs has joined the eye screening service as an adviser.  Gibbs (pictured right) was CEO of Axa Health for 17 years from 2001...

Yannis Mamalis, CEO and founder of International Brokers, based in Greece speaks to Health & Protection on how he built a career in international health and benefits, how his degree in physics helped...

The upward trend in the growth of the income protection market is largely because of increased levels of awareness among both advisers and consumers, according to Rose St Louis, protection director of...

Towergate Employee Benefits has hired Charlie Goodman as client director at Towergate Employee Benefits. Goodman has 20 years' experience in financial services including stints at Matioli Woods, Brooks Macdonald, Broadstone, Grant Thornton...

Genetic testing can go a long way in predicting certain diseases or conditions, but that has to be balanced with the danger of people being unfairly denied protection insurance, Health & Protection’s...

Health & Protection’s second Protection Forum took place at Ham Yard Hotel in London on Wednesday. The event, sponsored by HSBC Life and UnderwriteMe, saw a host of advisers, intermediaries, brokers and...

Beneficiary nomination is a simple and often faster way to ensure claim payouts reach the intended recipients even when trusts are being put in place, according to Ruth Gilbert, partner at Insuring...

Protection insurance may not be understood by many consumers, but it can be brought to life through better advertising and insurers must play their part, according to Toni Smith, distribution director of...

True success lies in operating just below the "red line" and never going beyond it, according to former elite rower and associate director at protection advice firm John Lamb Hill Oldridge, Holly...

The extent of economic abuse among insurance clients may be much greater than is widely believed, according to Matthew Connell, director of policy and public affairs at Chartered Insurance Institute (CII).  He...