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Caspian Insurance has appointed Lisa Pointon as director of operations. Joining from Reassured where she was sales director, Pointon (pictured) will oversee all aspects of Caspian’s operations, including sales, marketing, and customer...

Richard Howells is joining LSL Group from next month. Howells (pictured) will initially be financial services chief operating officer before stepping up to lead LSL’s financial services division as managing director at...

Customer demand and affordability, not insurers’ budgets, are driving cuts and changes to the way cancer care is covered by private medical insurance (PMI), according to Aviva. Aviva Health medical director Dr...

Customers will only benefit when extending matching adjustments (MA) to allow in-payment income protection (IP) liabilities under new Solvency UK rules is made accessible to smaller insurers, "spurring price competition rather than...

The UK Health & Protection Awards returned to the Hilton Park Lane in London bigger than ever before. More than 750 advisers, insurers and other representatives gathered together at a packed venue...

Aviva has seen a 35% increase in oncology spend since 2017. This is according to Dr Suba M (pictured), medical director at Aviva Health, who was addressing LaingBuisson’s Private Acute Health Conference...

Axa Health's digital orthopaedic service has proven "transformational" for the insurer and its customers driving down consultations, scanning and treatments, according to its head of specialist and practitioner relations Sarah Taylor. Presenting...

General insurance and pure protection complaints soared by more than a quarter (26.6%) for the first half of 2023 compared to the last half of 2022, according to data from the Financial...

Vitality's owner Discovery Health has partnered with Amwell, a global hybrid health care enablement specialist, to introduce the first digital therapeutic benefits funded by a health insurer in South Africa. The move...

The number of people on the NHS England waiting list for treatment soared past 7.7 million for the first time in August. This was up from 7,679,851 million people as of the...