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Chesnara has told Health & Protection that it intends to retain HSBC Life UK’s value-added services post-acquisition. The life and pensions company bought the bank’s UK life interests for £260m in a...

The protection and health insurance sector needs to be making progress in becoming more diverse in order to better reflect the society and the customer base it serves. There is evidence that...

Voting for the Health & Protection International PMI Provider Service Ratings 2026 will close next week and we want to hear from intermediaries around the world. You can vote to recognise those...

Canada Life is introducing specialist cancer support from Perci Health for all its group critical illness (CI) members with immediate effect and no additional cost. Members with a cancer diagnosis will be...

Artificial intelligence (AI) will benefit the protection industry but “human intelligence will still make a difference” the LifeSearch Awards heard. LifeSearch chief information officer Chris Payne said AI needs to be taken...

Holloway Friendly and Wiltshire Friendly have announced a proposal to merge subject to regulatory approval. This is the second merger of UK mutuals announced this year following OneFamily and Scottish Friendly's merger...

A machine learning future will make protection distribution better, not worse, but the industry has been challenged to not let innovation outpace integrity, according to LifeSearch executive chairman Tom Baigrie. Baigrie (pictured)...

Vitality has launched an AI‑powered underwriting process that summarises GP reports for life and serious illness cover applications. A pilot of the process showed an 81% reduction in GP report length and...

Hong Kong-based advice firm Alea Insurance has secured a broker licence in France and opened an office in Paris with the intention of expanding into Europe. The intermediary firm was established in...

Royal London has added more than 500 occupations and reduced and increased rates across its income protection (IP) product as part of several changes to the product proposition. It will now consider...