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Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) has announced plans to acquire Cavendish Online for £12m. The UK protection intermediary offers hybrid direct to consumer, guided and advised life insurance, critical illness and income protection...

Howden has appointed Cesare Lai as head of employee benefits and wellbeing in Italy. Lai has worked for more than 20 years in the sector including roles at AIG, Mercer, Willis Towers...

Aviva has added a dedicated neurodiversity pathway for group income protection (GIP) customers to its wider suite of vocational rehabilitation and early intervention services. The pathway aims to provide workplace support for...

Mortgage sourcing software provider Twenty7Tec has bought Bluecoat Software which owns the Finplan customer relationship management (CRM) system used by many protection advisers. The Finplan CRM is used by more than 300...

Advisers are warning that the severity of medical inflation in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is making international private medical insurance (IPMI) unsustainable in the region. The panel at Health & Protection’s...

Halcyon Trustees is launching as the first consultancy dedicated to supporting corporate healthcare trusts. The organisation is led by managing director John Dean and consulting director Elliott Hurst who together have more...

LV= has paid more than £5.4m in income protection (IP) and personal sick pay claims between January and April 2022, almost 10% up on last year. By comparison, in the same period...

HCA Healthcare UK's Lister Fertility Clinic has opened a fertility centre at The Portland Hospital in central London. It is the second location in the capital and will provide an array of...

Friends outrank GPs as the most popular point of contact to talk about the perimenopause or menopause, according to research from MetLife UK. The research was carried out by Censuswide in February/March...

Minimum qualifications for health insurance intermediaries must be introduced to ensure all customers achieve better healthcare outcomes, advisers have argued. The panel at Health & Protection’s Middle East international private medical insurance...