Appointments / Industry

The chancellor has charged the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) with reassessing the impact of its Consumer Duty on financial services and the way "businesses interact with other businesses". Delivering her Mansion House...

A 10-year long stop on claims made to the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) may exclude most protection products as part of an exemption proposed by HM Treasury (HMT). The consultation proposing the...

The group life and employee benefits sector has been included in HM Treasury’s (HMT) plans for the new UK captive insurance regime, having been excluded from the original proposals. The first consultation...

Sesame Bankhall Group (SBG) is to launch a exit consulting service this month to help advisers looking to sell their business. The new consulting proposition will aim to support directly authorised advice...

The UK's healthcare system operates in an unequal playing field "heavily tilted" towards the private sector with three myths about its support of the NHS being perpetuated by politicians. This is according...

Benenden Health's members will get access to Reframe Cancer’s specialist clinical cancer services under a deal between the organisations. The partnership will see all Benenden Health’s 870,000 members offered access to Reframe...

Insurers paid out a record £8bn in combined group and individual protection claims in 2024, although approval rates slipped across critical illness (CI) and income protection (IP) products. That is the equivalent...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) believes customer service in the general insurance and protection markets has improved over the last three years, despite outcomes only improving by a couple of percentage points....

BHSF has re-joined the Association of Medical Insurers and Intermediaries (AMII) as a corporate member. BHSF provides cash plans and health and wellbeing services across the UK. Health & Protection understands BHSF...

Axa Health has promoted Kelly Morris to the role of large corporate distribution director. Head of corporate retention and client delivery at Axa Health for the past four years, Morris (pictured) moved...