Appointments / Industry

Pacific Prime has appointed Michael Atta as head of employee benefits in Australia. Atta joins from Honan Financial Services where he was a director and will spearhead the firm's expansion into Australia....

  The administrators of Global Benefits Group Insurance Limited have completed the sale of GBG's international education insurance segments to Bison Capital. The Californian private equity investor revealed it has led an...

Guardian has updated two critical illness (CI) definitions and increased its decreasing term intereste rate as its new lower-cost Life Essentials plan goes live. The launch, revealed earlier in January, means customers...

Maxis Global Benefits Network has partnered with women's and family health virtual clinic the Maven Clinic. The latest addition to the Maxis wellness technology marketplace will offer Maxis GBN clients access to...

Sesame Network and PMS Mortgage Club, part of Sesame Bankhall Group (SBG), have announced Holloway Friendly as the latest addition to their protection panels. The mutual society offers income protection insurance to...

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired US broker The Rowley Agency. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The Rowley Agency is a retail insurance broker providing property/casualty, surety and employee...

Lovethorn has successfully closed £200k in pre-seed funding raise and appointed its first non-executive director. The insurtech launched eight months ago and provides an enhanced underwriting system to income protection providers, as...

Patients found it even more difficult to make contact with their local GP in the past month, according to data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The ONS data for the...

Ferring, UCB, Roche, GE Healthcare, SAP, Salesforce, Tech Mahindra and Microsoft feature among more than 40 signatories to an open letter calling for industry-wide collaboration to improve gender equity in all aspects...

The biggest misconception about critical illness (CI) is customers think it is terminal illness cover. This is according to advisers Health & Protection spoke to to gauge misconceptions about CI cover. This...