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PAM Wellbeing has joined the Association of Medical Insurers (AMII) as a corporate member. Part of the wider PAM Group, PAM Wellbeing is an employee assistance programme provider offering EAP and psychological...

Insurers are working at guarding against the risk of excessive price increases for certain customers due to the sector's move to increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in risk assessments. This is...

Bahrain has seen double-figure growth for its private medical insurance (PMI) industry over the last six months, according to latest figures from the Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB).  That growth has driven...

Tendr has agreed an integration with The PMI Handbook which will see the handbook's information on group and individual schemes made available to users of the employee benefits platform. The platform will...

Axa Health has appointed Heather Smith as chief executive officer (CEO). Smith (pictured) joins from Allianz where she is currently MD for retail responsible for providing personal lines insurance to 3.7 million...

Willis Towers Watson (WTW) has appointed Gaby Joyner as head of Great Britain following the retirement of John Ball last month. Joyner (pictured), who has been with the company for 23 years,...

Vitality paid £96m in protection claims in 2022. Publishing its life claims statistics for the year, the insurer revealed it paid out 96.6% of all protection claims - equating to a total...

Employees in Hong Kong experience the highest levels of mental or physical exhaustion at the conclusion of their workday, according to a report on the state of mental health across 12 Asian...

Spire Healthcare has seen private medical insurance (PMI) revenue grow 15.6% year-on-year as it returned to profit amid increased demand for its services. According to interim results for the first half of...

The number of people on the NHS England waiting list for treatment neared a new record 7.7 million for the first time in July. This was up by more than 100,000 people...