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More than 20,000 people have been added to the number of people who are economically inactive due to long term sickness in the UK over the past month. The latest figure from...

The UK's health, wealth and happiness levels are plumbing depths not seen since the height of the pandemic, according LifeSearch research. The advice firm's Health, Wealth & Happiness Index found almost a...

Canada Life has agreed to sell its individual onshore protection business to Countywide Assured plc, a subsidiary of Chesnara plc. Around 47,000 customer policies will transfer when the deal is completed with...

Employees are slightly less likely to lie about needing to take time off work due to poor mental health, according to research from Nuffield Health. It's latest Healthier Nation Index which surveyed...

A total of £2.21bn was paid out by the group risk industry during 2022, down marginally from £2.22bn in 2021, according to data from trade body Grid. Overall there were 261,631 interactions...

Aviva has issued an update to its group protection online platform Aviva Group Protection Online (AGPOL) to enable intermediaries to self-serve renewals for group protection policies for up to 250 lives. According...

Health & Protection’s second IPMI Summit took place last week at Pennyhill Park in Surrey. The two-day event saw advisers and intermediaries working in the international private medical insurance (IPMI) and healthcare...

Paycare has promoted Anthony Burns to chief executive with several other key changes also taking place in the senior leadership team. Burns (pictured) first joined the health cash plan provider from Computeach...

Third party administrators (TPAs) need to do a much better job on medical claims management throughout the international private medical insurance (IPMI) sector, according to James McGrigor, director of McGrigor Group. With...

Non-solicitation clauses could be key in helping advice firms alleviate the impact of the government's "blindside" move to limit non-compete clauses to just three months, compliance experts have told Health & Protection....