Appointments / Industry

Shepherds Friendly has corrected the value of income protection (IP) claims it paid in 2022, confirming it paid £2.25m in benefits to policyholders. The mutual previously told Health & Protection that it...

Group Risk Development (Grid) has written to chancellor Jeremy Hunt expressing concerns about HM Revenue & Customs "flawed" interpretation of taxation on group income protection (GIP), within the context of an optional...

Bupa has blamed a dearth of dentists and rising running costs as it is slashing dental services by closing, merging or selling 85 dental practices across the country. Announcing the move, Bupa...

Record low levels of satisfaction with GP services and NHS dentistry drive dissatisfaction with the NHS to an all time nadir in 2022. The latest British Social Attitudes Survey into public satisfaction...

Seven in 10 large companies say they find it difficult to ensure communication of health and wellbeing support is always relevant to employees, according to research from Towergate Health & Protection. The...

Aviva has launched a cost of living support scheme allowing existing individual protection customers to cut the value of their cover. However policyholders will need to answer medical questions later if they...

Healix has appointed Sharon Burgess in the newly created role of operations director.  Burgess (pictured) joins from Axa Health where she was corporate customer service manager, having previously held a similar role...

Cost pressures on SMEs and the economic environment are driving business worries for workplace protection advisers, but the growing interest of health and wellbeing is countering these concerns. More than half (55%)...

Legal & General Retail has made a series of updates to its critical illness (CI) proposition including increased payments for terminal illness and children's CI claims. Guaranteed insurability options (GIOs) have also...

Guardian is launching its first income protection (IP) product with a roll out set for the coming weeks. The product will be available to all advisers using IRESS, IPipeline and LifeQuote product...