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Gethin Nadin, chief advisory officer at Benifex, speaks to Health & Protection about dealing with outdated workplace attitudes, the benefits of having a supportive employer, the importance of lived allyship and not...

Zurich paid £392m in individual protection claims in 2025 to more than 5,500 claimants, up 9% from the £360m paid in 2024. In total, 97.4% of all individual protection claims were paid...

Many homeowners are confused about the financial support they will receive if they fall ill, suffer an injury or lose their job, research from LifeSearch and HomeOwners Alliance has discovered. The biggest...

Omni Protect, Fintel's whole of market protection club proposition, is using Caspian Insurance as a referral service for its firms. The agreement positions Caspian as the referral partner of choice for firms...

Guardian has added two new ‘core’ covers - Critical Illness Essentials and Combined Life and Critical Illness Essentials - to its Essentials range. The provider said these additional covers will give advisers...

One in four consumers have taken on debt to fund their private medical insurance (PMI) cover. This is according to findings from insurance finance specialist Premium Credit which found tighter household budgets...

UAE-based broker Policybazaar has launched an add-on enabling customers to freeze their health insurance premium at the rate they sign up at and keep it there for up to five years.  Available...

Any private medical insurer who made it clear that they would cover weight-loss treatment to cut the risk of complications ahead of surgery would “clean up,” according to Rhys Schofield,  protection adviser...

WTW has reached an agreement to make Everest Funeral Concierge UK’s funeral planning and independent advocacy support available to employers who are looking to help support employees and their families before and...

Artificial Intelligence’s (AI) ability to ‘industrialise’ the complaints process as well as poor service levels from insurers and advisers alike are some of the key reasons behind increasing health and protection grievances....