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Mental ill health accounted for the most common reason for customers to call Zurich’s employee assistance programme (EAP), but this coincided with a dramatic increase in the number of customer calls on...

Global insurance brokerage Arthur J Gallagher & Co has acquired Melbourne, Victoria-based Health Insurance Consultants Australia (HICA).   Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.  HICA is a specialist health insurance consultancy...

Whether international private medical insurance (IPMI) advisers should move to a fee only model was one of the questions raised at Health & Protection's third annual IPMI Summit last week. A new...

Nearly one in 10 people in the UK have travelled abroad for dental treatment, according to research from Canada Life. The insurer's survey of 2,000 adults across the UK found 9% had...

Insurers like Bupa are part of a broader ecosystem intent on driving down carbon emissions across the healthcare sector. This is according to Lyndsay Stecher, director of partnerships and development at Health...

­Healix has today announced three senior hires as the business continues to expand its team and product offering, including David Battle, Steven Whitehouse and Richard Jones.  David Battle joins Healix as non-executive...

The number of people waiting for NHS treatment remained largely unchanged in March, according to official data. The data showed the number of referral to treatment (RTT) pathways where a patient was...

The Income Protection Task Force (IPTF) has released a film to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the 7Families project. The 7Families project which ran between 2014 and 2016 followed the lives...

Big insurance brands in the international private medical insurance (IPMI) space have an easier time getting new customers than newer entrants, thanks to the power of their brand, according to Matt Howells,...

Alexander Beard Group has joined commercial insurance, risk management, and employee benefits brokerage group Assurex Global Partnership. Founded in 1954, Ohio-based Assurex Global is a partnership of more than 100 independent agents...