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Healix appoints operations director from Axa Health
Healix has appointed Sharon Burgess in the newly created role of operations director. Burgess (pictured) joins from Axa Health where she was corporate customer service manager, having previously held a similar role...
Read moreAdvisers cite SME cost pressures as top concern but health demand soars
Cost pressures on SMEs and the economic environment are driving business worries for workplace protection advisers, but the growing interest of health and wellbeing is countering these concerns. More than half (55%)...
Read moreL&G updates CI proposition and extends all guaranteed insurability options
Legal & General Retail has made a series of updates to its critical illness (CI) proposition including increased payments for terminal illness and children's CI claims. Guaranteed insurability options (GIOs) have also...
Read moreGuardian unveils first IP product eyeing ‘significant’ opportunity in growing market
Guardian is launching its first income protection (IP) product with a roll out set for the coming weeks. The product will be available to all advisers using IRESS, IPipeline and LifeQuote product...
Read moreFCA wants advisers to complain if they do not get insurer target market data
Advisers should complain to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) if they do not receive target market data from insurers as required under Consumer Duty information sharing requirements. This is according to FCA...
Read moreHow providers and advisers are meeting the financial wellbeing crisis – analysis
Spiralling inflation and energy costs have combined to create a cost of living crisis in which some people have been left with a choice between eating and heating. As a result, some...
Read moreBritish Friendly pays 90% of IP claims
British Friendly paid 90% of new income protection (IP) claims in 2022 and just over £5m to its members in income protection and discretionary BF Care claims. British Friendly paid 1,193 claims...
Read moreUnum pays £395m in claims but warns remote working delaying GIP interventions
Unum UK paid a total of £395m in claims in 2022, up £29m on 2021, with around £216m of the total being for group income protection (GIP). However it warned that the...
Read moreIntroducing: Abbie Marlow, Swiss Re
Abbie Marlow, client manager at Swiss Re, speaks to Health & Protection about trying to find a vocation which would make use of analytical skills gained at university, not giving up on...
Read moreHealth Summit: ONS analysing barriers to mental health as middle-aged issues soar
As suicides, drug and alcohol-related deaths increase among the middle aged, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has revealed it is analysing data around barriers to accessing mental health services. Presenting the...
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