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Cutting insurance premium tax (IPT) is the key to improving worker inactivity, according to Cara Spinks, head of insurance consulting at actuarial consultancy OAC. Spinks' comments follow latest HMRC tax receipts data...

More meaningful occupational health interventions will be necessary to make government's plan to shift responsibility for issuing fit notes from GPs, towards specialist work and health professionals workable. This is according to...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) plans to examine how big tech firms’ unique access to large sets of data can unlock better products, more competitive prices and wider choice for consumers and...

Swiss Re has launched a generative artificial intelligence (AI) assistant to its life and underwriting manual life guide designed to help increase the efficiency and quality of underwriting.  Swiss Re’s augmented version...

Legal & General targeted The Exeter's income protection (IP) claims assessors as part of a recruitment drive on LinkedIn last year, according to the mutual's CEO. In response L&G said it did...

Aviva paid more than £413m in group protection claims in 2023. The insurer revealed it paid more than £1.1m every day for employees and their families through group protection policies and had...

Joe Cronin, president of International Citizens Insurance speaks to Health & Protection about how he started his own insurance company with clients in more than 200 countries across the globe, the influence...

One in five adults in the UK have done a dental procedure on themselves, according to research from Canada Life. The insurer's survey of 2,000 UK adults found a fifth (18%) of...

The level of adviser knowledge about critical illness is "pretty poor," according to Alan Lakey director of CI Expert. Participating in a panel debate at Health & Protection's inaugural Protection Forum in...

Leaders from major protection insurers have called for the sector to have an honest conversation about loaded premiums and commissions, with one CEO saying they would be "delighted" if the Financial Conduct...