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The numbers of long Covid sufferers insurers are helping with income protection (IP) support ranges from under 20 to more than 70 at one provider, Health & Protection can reveal. Earlier this...

Nearly half of Britons have never seen a financial adviser but doing so boosts protection uptake, according to research from The Openwork Partnership. It found 45% of all 2,000 respondents had never...

Law firm BDB Pitmans has joined group risk industry body Grid. The law firm, which has worked on group life and excepted group life trusts for employers, insurers and independent trustees, said...

Spire Healthcare is installing solar panels on the the rooves of some of its sites and improving the insulation of its buildings as part of a drive to go carbon neutral by...

Fresh data from The King's Fund and Healthwatch England has higlighted the strain patients, particularly those in deprived areas, are under as NHS backlogs continue to build as a result of the...

Life insurer Manulife has appointed Pankaj Banerjee as chief distribution officer for Asia. Banerjee (pictured) joins from AIA, where he was CEO for group partnership distribution, covering all of AIA Group's markets....

Introducing simple protection policies, group risk auto-enrolment and microinsurance products would help reduce lower-income customers’ exclusion from insurance, the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA) has said. The panel of lower-income people...

Unum UK has appointed John Hyde as chief marketing officer. Hyde joins Unum’s executive committee from Hastings Direct where he was head of growth products and previously spent nine years at Legal...

A financial adviser has been banned and stripped of his permissions by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) after failing to declare more than £407,000 of income to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC)...

Complaints about income protection (IP) insurance dropped by a fifth in the first three months of the 2021-22 financial year, according to the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS). Overall complaints regarding the health...