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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...

The number of people aged under-50 admitted to private hospital with bowel cancer has jumped by almost 50% since 2021, according to the Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN). In the third quarter...

Westfield Health has launched a digital platform designed to overhaul how intermediaries quote, sell and manage health cash plans for their clients. It has also added cancer risk assessment and screening through...

Research from Everywhen shows that 43% of UK companies do not have a formal health and wellbeing strategy in place.  The poll of 500 HR decision makers also shows that for 18%...

Depleting consumer confidence has led to increased interest in taking out protection cover. This is according to National Friendly’s Bruised Britain #3: Modern Day Fears study which polled 2,000 consumers in February...

Zurich is providing its life protection customers with access to bereavement support service Empathy at no extra cost and also investing in specialist training for its teams. From today, retail protection customers...

Claire Bostock has joined Aviva’s individual protection team as a strategic account manager.  Her most recent role was at HSBC Life where she worked for almost eight years as a national account...

Broadstone has appointed Jordan Ring as senior healthcare consultant. Ring (pictured) joins from Everywhen where she was a senior employee benefits consultant. She previously worked at The Health Insurance Group as a...

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...

Overall mortality rates in the first quarter of 2026 were lower than in any previous first quarter on record. This is according to the Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI) mortality analysis for England...