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Hundreds of appointed representatives (ARs) have left the general insurance and protection sectors over the past year. This is according to data from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), which revealed that while...

Healthcare has never been more innovative. It has also rarely been this complicated. Across insurance and employer-supported healthcare, digital health has exploded. AI powered triage, on demand mental health support, wearables and...

Scott Taylor has joined Bupa Global as a senior product manager. He left Aviva after two years working in distribution and product risk and governance to take on the role. The new...

Aon has launched Activate, a data-led and scalable total rewards and employee benefits platform. Enhanced by AI-powered tools, Activate unifies benefits, wellbeing, pensions and rewards into a single digital platform aiming to...

Clare Dare has joined NeuroBridge as head of partnerships, having left PIB Employee Benefits earlier this year. The firm is a workplace inclusion platform designed to support neurodivergent individuals. Dare (pictured) had...

Gethin Nadin, chief advisory officer at Benifex, speaks to Health & Protection about dealing with outdated workplace attitudes, the benefits of having a supportive employer, the importance of lived allyship and not...

Zurich paid £392m in individual protection claims in 2025 to more than 5,500 claimants, up 9% from the £360m paid in 2024. In total, 97.4% of all individual protection claims were paid...

Many homeowners are confused about the financial support they will receive if they fall ill, suffer an injury or lose their job, research from LifeSearch and HomeOwners Alliance has discovered. The biggest...

Omni Protect, Fintel's whole of market protection club proposition, is using Caspian Insurance as a referral service for its firms. The agreement positions Caspian as the referral partner of choice for firms...

Guardian has added two new ‘core’ covers - Critical Illness Essentials and Combined Life and Critical Illness Essentials - to its Essentials range. The provider said these additional covers will give advisers...