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The first three months of 2023 saw the highest number of excess deaths in the UK since the start of the second wave of the pandemic. Based on provisional Office for National...

The vast majority of young people are struggling with their mental health, according to research from mental health charity Mind. The poll of 2,000 18-24 year olds revealed 95% were struggling with...

Checks made by Aviva staff helped convict an income protection (IP) insurance fraudster after he claimed more than £20,000 of lost income from a job he did not have. Sydenham man Neil...

LSL saw a 3% decline in protection and insurance fee income in 2022, swung to a near £60m pre-tax loss over the year and noted its Pivotal Growth joint venture had not...

Canada Life is offering the Toothfairy a dental care app to all group protection customers. The app has been created by two dentists and uses patent-pending technology to solve a number of...

The UK group risk market posted record premiums over the past year as scheme and member numbers increased, but future growth is being threatened by double taxation of group income protection (GIP),...

Members of the Association of Financial Mutuals (AFM) that offer income protection products paid out £52m in claims over the year, to more than 9,000 customers. The figure was up from £34m...

There were 7,218,001 patients on the NHS England waiting list for treatment to be started in February – another record for the service – up from 7,213,436 in January and 4.4 million...

The City of London Police's Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department (IFED) has investigated 18 claims of opportunistic insurance fraud between February and March, as soaring inflation is triggering a rise in fraud. IFED...

Two private hospitals have been publically warned about not providing data on performance and patient outcomes and threatened with regulatory enforcement if they fail to meet a six month deadline to do...