Appointments / Industry

Insurance Premium Tax (IPT) raised £6.5bn for the Treasury between April 2023 and January 2024 compared to £5.9bn in the same period of the previous year  according to latest HM Revenue &...

UK businesses will be urged to tackle in-work sickness and stop people from falling out the workforce, following the appointment of Dame Carol Black as the government’s new occupational health tsar. Black,...

SimplyBiz has launched MyLearning Academy, an online learning portal developed in partnership with Competent Adviser. The academy, available from today (21 February) to all SimplyBiz member firms, offers support on a range...

An unnamed insurer has come in for praise from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for highlighting policy exclusions on its website before customers even begin to start applications. In its Consumer Duty...

Canada Life's closure of its individual protection business cost the insurer C$29m, approximately £17.1m, it has reported. This is according to 2023 financial results for the company's parent Great West Life Co...

RedArc has helped one in four of those it supported to stay in work or return to work. This is according to research carried out by the nurse-led health and wellbeing company...

More than a third (37%) of advice firms have reviewed or changed their fees structure since the Consumer Duty was introduced, according to Sheldon Mills, executive director of consumers and competition at...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has praised insurers for improving propositions to offer new health and wellbeing benefits and widening policy definitions to cover more customers. In its Consumer Duty implementation: good...

German insurtech Embea has raised €4m to expand its pan-European embedded life insurance platform and add new insurance products to its portfolio. The funding round was led by Atlantic Labs, a Berlin-based...

The Association of Medical Insurers (AMII) has added Switch Health, PSG, and Healthwell as intermediary members. Jack Chandler, CEO at Switch Health, said: "As we join AMII, we look forward to gaining...