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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has appointed Laura Dawes and Dominic Cashman as directors of authorisation and is reforming its process to speed up decision-making. The regulator has faced complaints from the...

Axa Health has launched an app for large corporate schemes bringing together physical and mental wellbeing assessments with onward recommendations and coaching programmes, line-manager support, and relevant clinical services. The free app...

Healthcare trust provider Healix Health Services has launched a low cost employer digital health benefit Healix ConneX. The solution, which is designed to bridge the gap between no healthcare offering at all...

Shepherds Friendly paid out 95% of income protection (IP) claims received in 2021 and has paid an average of 95% of claims over the past five years. The greatest number of claims...

Cirencester Friendly is promoting finance director Andy Morris to CEO, succeeding Paul Hudson who announced his impending retirement last year after 26 years. Morris (pictured) has held senior positions within Nationwide, RBS...

LV= paid a record £119m in protection claims in 2021 to more than 9,000 claimants and their families, with 96% of all individual protection claims made being approved. This compares to £117.8m...

Phil Jeynes is responding to the report and independent research published by advice firm LifeSearch last month about the quality of non-advised protection sales.   According to Swiss Re’s 2021 Term and...

Royal London has made a number of changes to its non-medical limits for income protection (IP) which are aimed at speeding up the process for offering cover to customers and its straight...

Businesses should consider a four-day working week and regulate working hours to promote a healthy work-life balance supporting mental and physical health, University College London (UCL) is recommending. The university also called...

British Friendly has overhauled its income protection (IP) application processand extended its maximum earnings limit and benefit payment. The insurer has cut its online medical and lifestyle questionnaire to nine compulsory questions...