International

Howden has appointed Mandira Gupta as managing director and head of mergers and acquisitions, IMEA (India, Middle East and Africa). Based at Howden’s India headquarters in Mumbai, Gupta will lead Howden’s strategic...

  The evolving landscape of the workforce is marked by a significant trend: the growing percentage of Baby Boomers continuing to work full-time, challenging traditional retirement norms. In 1987, only 11% of...

As businesses navigate an increasingly globalised world, the demand for comprehensive and adaptable healthcare benefits for their diverse workforce has been increasing.   As a result the group IPMI sector is a market...

Plans in the US for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to collect American's health records as part of a study into autism have been branded as "outdated, medicalised thinking that risks...

Blue Shield of California has suffered a data breach that may have included millions of patients protected health information being shared with Google Analytics and then Google Ads. A listing on the...

Chedid Insurance Brokers in Qatar has announced the appointment of Alaa Ladkani, head of its international networks division, to the board of the Worldwide Insurance Network Group (WING).  WING, based in Zurich,...

Health & Protection's fourth visit to Dubai for our Middle East Forum 2025 was in association with UnitedHealthcare Global. It brought together speakers and delegates from advisers, insurer representatives and a range...

A landmark ruling handed down by the Supreme Court on the legal definition of a woman under the Equality Act 2010 has implications for private medical insurance (PMI) underwriters, according to a...

William Russell has revamped its individual life insurance offering including the introduction of smoker rates and an increase to the minimum age at last renewal from 69 to 74 (or 69 if...

China's National Healthcare Security Administration (NHSA) has launched a tip-off service through its official WeChat account, which allows social organisations and the public to report leads on medical insurance fraud.   The...