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Bupa has extended its partnership with private cancer care provider GenesisCare until August 2027. The contract renewal will see both organisations working to expand the provision of radiotherapy and systemic therapy services...

The rising cost of health insurance is pushing more than three million Australians to drop coverage this year, according to a new survey from Finder. The Finder survey of 1,070 Australians found...

The Protection Distributors Group (PDG) has added Business Protected Ltd and Your Life Protected as members and appointed Chelsea Warren as board member. Warren, the head of financial protection at SPF Private...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has followed through on a commitment to launch a review into how financial services firms treat customers in vulnerable circumstances. Under the regulator's Consumer Duty, firms should...

EY has appointed Alistair Brannan as UK head of life and pensions. Brannan (pictured) will also join EY’s UK insurance leadership team and remains client and markets leader for its financial services business...

DeadHappy has been told to close to new life insurance customers, with its underwriter no longer taking on any new business from the firm. The life insurance company, who last year courted...

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...