Appointments / Industry

Axa Health has hired Jordan Ayrey as SME distribution director from Bupa where he was head of consumer intermediary. He will join Axa Health in November and will lead SME distribution, driving...

The most common service occupational health providers deliver typically costs as much as £200 per employee and can often cost much more, according to government research. The data from the Department for...

Removing the VAT exemption on private healthcare would be "madness" adding to the tax burden on employers and causing individuals and UK plc alike to think long and hard about whether they...

Lord Kinnock is calling for the government to remove the exemption on VAT on private healthcare, while calls have also been made to introduce a windfall tax on these services. The former...

Aon Cayman has appointed Geoff Thompson as vice president, employee benefits, with Thompson moving to the Caribbean after leaving Vitality. Thompson (pictured centre picking up a Health & Protection Award in 2021...

Legal & General's group protection new business fell more than 10% driving a 3.5% drop in its overall protection sales for the first six months of 2025. The insurer’s retail protection sales...

Ascend Broking Group has launched Ascend Life, a protection division offering life and income protection solutions to individual and corporate clients. Led by Kristian Breeze (pictured), the division's services include life cover,...

HFMC Wealth has joined group risk industry body Grid. The firm is a multi-disciplined independent advisory practice, with a dedicated employee benefits division providing workplace pensions and employee benefit solutions, predominantly focused...

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has added Robert Marshall to its self-employed network. Marshall (pictured) has spent the last two decades at Lloyds Bank where he was a mortgage and protection adviser. MAB...

WTW and Klarity are working together to help life insurers improve pricing accuracy by integrating wearable technology and data into their underwriting processes. Klarity has developed a risk scoring tool that produces...