Appointments / Industry

Private medical insurance (PMI) and employee benefits adviser Verlingue has appointed Ian McKinney as director, corporate - Midlands and South West to lead its new operation in Birmingham. The firm is opening...

Scan.com has raised a $12m Series A round co-led by Aviva Ventures, Simplyhealth Ventures, YZR Capital, Oxford Capital and Triple Point Ventures, with participation from Forefront Venture Partners. The London and Atlanta-based...

CIExpert's decision to introduce Guardian's new income protection (IP) plan on its Insight Zone is "just the start of the journey" to replicating its current review service for critical illness products, the...

YuLife has launched in South Africa. Founded in London in 2016, YuLife's group risk protection product provides life, income protection, lump sum disability, and funeral cover as well as a wellbeing app...

Perci Health, an online platform support cancer patients has raised £3.4m in a seed round led by Octopus Ventures. The additional funds will enable the company to further invest into its technology...

Insurance United Against Dementia (IUAD) has now raised more than £8m for the Alzheimer’s Society. Launched in 2017 in partnership with the charity, IUAD is led by senior professionals from across the...

Manchester-based financial planning firm Pareto has joined group risk industry trade body Grid. Pareto supports its business clients across a number of areas including employee benefits and protection insurance. It also offers...

More than half of Brits (53%) would consider seeing a private GP in the future, according to a poll commissioned by Spire Healthcare. A third (32%) of the 2,000 respondents who took...

The Exeter has appointed proposition leads for its healthcare and protection products as well as a new head of marketing. Matt Foster has been promoted to proposition lead for healthcare having been...

The first three months of 2023 saw the highest number of excess deaths in the UK since the start of the second wave of the pandemic. Based on provisional Office for National...