Appointments / Industry

More than a million fewer people gained health benefits from spending time in nature in 2022 than during the height of the pandemic. This is according to data from the Office for...

Guidance issued to group risk insurers to not include third party service level and supplier agreements in contracts with employers should not be considered anti-competitive, Group Risk Development (Grid) has said. The...

Private healthcare continues to be the preserve of wealthier employees, according to a report from Healthwatch England. Its report The public's perspective: The state of health and social care found people who...

IPipeline has promoted Zoe Mears to enterprise sales manager. Most recently senior sales manager for client distribution, Mears (pictured) has also held other roles of increasing responsibility in client distribution and the...

The Foster Denovo Group has acquired Punter Southall Aspire’s employee benefits business. The businesses will combine under Foster Denovo’s employee benefits division Secondsight. with the deal set to complete by the end...

Wearable devices could help big tech firms to better understand a consumer’s financial and risk profile and create more accurately priced financial products, according to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).  The FCA...

UK plc needs to stop viewing employee wellbeing as a 'nice to have' as such investments could see organisations collectively recoup £6.4bn a year through reduction in lost output from sickness and...

AIG Life has unveiled a new underwriting rules engine (URE) and updated intermediated underwriting journey, including around blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes and previous cancer cases. The insurer said more than 50 changes...

Unemployment is the primary driver behind customers cancelling their life cover, according to research from VitalityLife. However around half of UK adults (56%) said they would never consider cancelling their life insurance...

Legal & General has appointed James Shattock as its next managing director for UK protection, while Pippa Keefe has succeeded him as commercial director. The appointments follow current managing director of UK...