Appointments / Industry

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has threatened to take enforcement action on private hospitals and doctors not supplying data about the quality of care they are providing. The warning was issued...

Demand for private medical insurance (PMI) is soaring among individuals and businesses but customers want more than just their cover, according to Tina Jennings, general secretary of the Association of Medical Insurers...

Steve Barclay (pictured) is once again health and social care secretary, succeeding Thérèse Coffey who held the role for little more than a month under the disaterous leadership of Liz Truss. Mel...

YuLife has followed through on its commitment to expand into new markets with a launch into the US. Over the summer the protection and wellbeing platform raised $120m (£104.5m) in a Series...

OneFamily has revealed it will be buying life and critical illness insurer Beagle Street by the end of the year. The mutual said the deal will see it expand its product range...

LV= Financial Services has revealed it has not been contacted by Amazon to partner with it on a protection insurance solution for its newly launched Insurance Store. Allianz-owned LV General Insurance is...

Technology firms are most likely to enter the insurance sector as competition for intermediaries but their mining of vast amounts of customer data could limit access for certain customer groups, the Financial...

Aegon UK has embedded an electronic medical records request into its online protection applications. The insurer said the move will make it quicker and easier for advisers to provide a client's permission...

Dr Jochem Caris, associate medical director at Aviva, speaks to Health & Protection about catching Covid at the start of the pandemic, successfully combining medical and business skills and participating at the...

Protection and health insurance advisers have raised hopes Rishi Sunak's appointment as prime minister will reassure markets and in turn have a positive impact on their sectors. Sunak was appointed PM earlier...