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A German man has been jailed after he was found to have faked his own death so that he could claim €4m on a series of life insurance policies. The Mirror reports...

Health and wellbeing benefits provider Vivup, will merge with benefits and reward platform Perkbox, via a majority investment from US-based growth equity firm Great Hill Partners, it was announced today.  “This brings...

MetLife UK has announced it paid out more than £22m over the past year. The provider said that over the period between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2023 it paid out...

Growth in chronic diseases, particularly type 2 diabetes, is one of the emerging trends that helped drive Dr Karan Mehta to create Bluezone, a life insurance provider for a very specific fast-growing...

Week 7 of The Apprentice saw the contestants fly out to Hungary with the mission of selling a Budapest experience to tourists. A further reshuffling of the teams saw protection adviser Raj...

The number of referrals for secondary mental health services increased by more than 34% in the period between March 2021 and the start of this year. Statistics from NHS England released today...

Paying individuals to go the gym could be the key to changing their health for the long term. This is according to Cass Sunstein the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard ,...

The NHS made marginal progress in reducing the number of people waiting for treatment - cutting the number on the waiting list by almost 28,000 people in England as of the start...

Individual income protection provider Cirencester Friendly paid more than £9.3m in claims in 2023, while its longest running claim has been paid for 33 years. The mutual paid 95.8% of claims paid...

Mindfulness is the most in demand mental health support category that UK employees are seeking, according to data from Canada Life’s mental wellbeing app, MyStrength. The data showed that in 2023, the...