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Voting for the Health & Protection Awards 2024 is now open. Advisers, brokers and other intermediaries can vote to recognise the providers they believe have been outstanding in their respective sectors during...

Stonebridge has appointed Guardian and Zurich to its protection panel, taking the number of primary providers from six to eight. Guardian and Zurich join AIG, Aviva, Legal & General, LV=, Royal London,...

Over 21.7 million people in the UK, representing more than two-thirds (68%) of the working population, have pressed on working while unwell in the past two years, according to research released today...

Andy Walton, senior consultant at Lloyd & Co. Employee Benefits, speaks to Health & Protection about how the 2023 Awards brought a long wait to an end. Fantastic, incredible feeling Walton who...

Unum UK has appointed Lio Lopez-Welsch as chief information and digital officer. Lopez-Welsch (pictured) who joins from Aegon UK where he was CIO, will also sit on Unum UK’s executive committee and...

Financial services company SunLife, part of Phoenix Group, has appointed Victoria Heath as chief marketing officer. Heath joins SunLife from Vanquis Bank, bringing with her over 20 years of strategic marketing experience including...

Winning Best Mental Health Advice Firm at the Health & Protection Awards was a first in more ways than one, according to Brett Hill, head of health and protection at Broadstone. Speaking...

National concern over the state of the NHS has increased to make it the joint most reported issue, along with the cost of living, according to data from the Office of National...

The Association of Financial Mutuals (AFM) has appointed Shepherds Friendly, Ann-Marie O’Dea, as board chairwoman. Previously vice-chairwoman, she succeeds Stuart Tragheim, who has stood down following his retirement from Holloway Friendly Society...

Insurers need to come up with more innovative products than simple gold, silver, and bronze versions, to reach out to potential customers who currently are not being served, according to Nick Potter,...