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  We hope you can join us for our next Academy event which takes place on Wednesday 5 June at 10:00am: Register now. In the UK, 60% of small business managers say...

Most of the young adults responding to a survey by life insurer Beagle Street reported that they do not have life cover. The survey of 2,000 adults aged between 18 and 40...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has undertaken an in-depth review of the life insurance market's governance arrangements and pure protection product fair value. The regulator said it had conducted the review over...

Johnny Timpson has called on protection and health insurers to "do better" by introducing signposting solutions for carers to their added value services. Timpson's comments follow similar criticism levelled at the Department...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has written to life insurance CEOs with key questions they must ask themselves ahead of the looming Consumer Duty deadline for closed products and services at the...

More than half of all UK parents have no form of financial protection in place if absence from work is required to care of their children. This is according to findings from...

As the problems of the NHS are set to become a major focal point in the upcoming UK general election, South Africa's newly created National Health Insurance (NHI) is experiencing its own...

Ascend Broking Group has appointed Kristian Breeze as healthcare director for Ascend Healthcare, (previously known as SMP Insurance Brokers).  Breeze, (pictured), who told Health & Protection about his new role,  previously worked...

The health and protection industry needs to make a "really, really" clear case that long-called for tax breaks will deliver increased take-up of cover and will not hurt the exchequer. This is...

The insurance sector has been challenged to show greater leadership in demonstrating the value that brokers bring to designing commissions and on policing non-financial misconduct and promoting healthy work cultures. The challenge...