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ADVERTORIAL Over the past two years, the use of digital healthcare services – including telemedicine – has significantly increased. At AXA Global Healthcare, our Virtual Doctor service, which is provided by Teladoc Health, went...

A financial adviser who had debts of more than £300,000 after conducting the improper sale of insurance policies has been handed a nine-year bankruptcy order. Marc Jones, 42, from Whitchurch in Cardiff,...

Going through the menopause has had an adverse effect on the careers of many working women, according to research from Canada Life. The survey of 155 working women aged 45-65 who are...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has appointed Laura Dawes and Dominic Cashman as directors of authorisation and is reforming its process to speed up decision-making. The regulator has faced complaints from the...

Axa Health has launched an app for large corporate schemes bringing together physical and mental wellbeing assessments with onward recommendations and coaching programmes, line-manager support, and relevant clinical services. The free app...

Healthcare trust provider Healix Health Services has launched a low cost employer digital health benefit Healix ConneX. The solution, which is designed to bridge the gap between no healthcare offering at all...

Shepherds Friendly paid out 95% of income protection (IP) claims received in 2021 and has paid an average of 95% of claims over the past five years. The greatest number of claims...

Cirencester Friendly is promoting finance director Andy Morris to CEO, succeeding Paul Hudson who announced his impending retirement last year after 26 years. Morris (pictured) has held senior positions within Nationwide, RBS...

LV= paid a record £119m in protection claims in 2021 to more than 9,000 claimants and their families, with 96% of all individual protection claims made being approved. This compares to £117.8m...

Phil Jeynes is responding to the report and independent research published by advice firm LifeSearch last month about the quality of non-advised protection sales.   According to Swiss Re’s 2021 Term and...