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Inclusive job ads and limiting degree needs key to Axa Health D&I recipe – Garrad
Running job ads through a gender language decoder and a colour checker for accessibility and not asking about degrees unless they are vital to the role are just some of the key...
Read moreWearable tech sending reports to insurers ‘only a matter of time’ – Bupa
Wearable technology sending reports to insurers and doctors and personalised care based on genetic tests are the future of healthcare, according to Bupa. Iain McMillan, director of distribution at the insurer, also...
Read moreChildren’s CI difficult to understand, say third of advisers
Fewer than half of advisers believe they are knowledgeable about children’s critical illness (CI) insurance and one in three say the product line is not easy to understand. The figures came from...
Read moreMortgage Advice Bureau takes 75% stake in protection consultancy Auxilium
Intermediary network and advice firm Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has taken a 75% shareholding in protection consultancy and service provider Auxilium Partnership. Auxilium Partnership will continue to be led by CEO Mark...
Read more‘Cynical’ £500k fraudster jailed after Aviva spots fake claim for brother’s death
A “cynical” fraudster has been jailed for three years after trying to claim more than half a million pounds in life insurance payouts covering his brother from several policies bought after his...
Read moreGovernment will ‘turbocharge’ private hospital use as taskforce appointed to cut NHS backlogs
The government is planning to “turbocharge” its use of private hospitals and healthcare to cut the NHS patient backlog which has hit more than seven million people. The Department of Health (DoH)...
Read moreGrid calls on DWP to include workplace benefits in employer support service
Group Risk Development (Grid) has called on the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to include services available through workplace health and risk benefits in its new Support for Employee Health and...
Read moreJennie Doyle joins Vitality as head of health insurance product marketing after decade at Health Shield
Jennie Doyle has joined Vitality as head of product marketing for health insurance after almost a decade with Health Shield. The cash plan provider has appointed Martin Dunne as Doyle's successor -...
Read moreWhy PMI has become a ‘have to have’ benefit for employers – analysis
At the start of the year, employers across the country may have hoped that 2022 would have offered some respite after two years wrestling with a pandemic which forced staff to turn...
Read moreWe hide behind ‘products need to be sold’ but a lot are bought – McCarthy
Protection Distributors Group chairman Neil McCarthy has sought to scupper the narrative that “protection products are sold not bought”. Speaking at the Protection Review conference, McCarthy told delegates the sector may like...
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