Appointments / Industry

Simplyhealth is appointing Tina Kennedy to the newly created role of product director of its consumer businesses. Kennedy (pictured) will have full accountability for the profit and loss of the consumer business...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has highlighted the use of consultant lists by private medical insurance (PMI) providers as a method of ensuring products provide value to customers. The regulator used the...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is warning protection product providers that simply complying with fair value rules they are already subject to will not be enough to meet Consumer Duty requirements. The...

The Personal Finance Society (PFS) has agreed to share the findings of its feedback from its member consultation with the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) board. The consultation was instigated after the CII’s...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has written to the chief executives and directors of health and protection insurers and intermediaries conveying its expectations around implementation of the Consumer Duty and warning it...

Ahead of World Cancer Day on 4 February, MetLife strategic account manager Trang Tran (pictured), who has worked in the insurance sector for almost a quarter of a century, speaks to Health...

Swiss Re is to split its reinsurance business unit into two divisions - property and casualty (P&C) reinsurance, and life and health (L&H) reinsurance. The reorganisation will be effective from 3 April...

Social media accounts of regulated people and unregulated influencers are an area of "growing concern" for the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), which revealed it has sanctioned "several" social media personalities over the...

Four in 10 employers think employees having a better understanding of their own risks of serious illnesses like cancer has increased in importance to them. This is according to research of 500...

Insurers are being praised by advisers for their efforts to support customers suffering with cancer - including one that helped a woman who was forced to have her treatment 2,000 miles away...