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Virtual Event: Empowering your small business through workplace cancer support – Bupa
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...
Read moreBeagle Street survey finds most young adults lack life cover
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...
Read moreFCA conducting thematic review of protection product governance and fair value
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...
Read moreInsurers should ‘do better’ by carers and improve added value services – Timpson
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...
Read moreFCA tells life insurance CEOs to review closed products ahead of looming deadline
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...
Read moreMost UK parents risk financial security due to lack of protection – MetLife
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...
Read moreDiscovery warns of legal challenges to South Africa’s National Health Insurance Act
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...
Read moreAscend appoints healthcare director
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...
Read moreHealth and protection industry must prove tax breaks will increase cover – Ahern
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...
Read moreCommission should better demonstrate value of brokers – FCA
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...
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