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Willis Towers Watson has launched employee engagement platform Engage. The platform is designed to help organisations listen to employees and and respond to their needs, understand variations among different workforce segments, make...

Legal & General has revealed it paid out a record 46 personal protection claims every day in the UK during 2021, totalling £797.9 million – up £33.9 million on 2020 – and...

Hannah Lee, a data scientist at Zurich Insurance, speaks to Health & Protection about the wealth of opportunities a career in protection insurance can offer, the challenge of moving teams after a...

Aegon UK has launched a new adviser dashboard bringing together all protection applications onto one online platform. The dashboard enables advisers to complete and submit applications online, track these in real-time and...

Health Shield has revealed dental claims on its health cash plans have risen 18.2% on last year. It added the average value of these dental claims amounted to nearly £50 per treatment....

More than a third of business owners admit to having no protection in place for their firm in the event they or a key member of staff dies or suffers a severe...

Howden Insurance Brokers has acquired the business and assets of Singapore-based specialist insurance agency Aegis Insurance Agencies for an undisclosed sum. Launched in 2003, Aegis offers bespoke retail insurance solutions, specialising in...

Anyone who attended the Association of Medical Insurers and Intermediaries (AMII) annual general meeting last week could not fail to have been moved by the presentation by Mike McCarthy, the former Sky...

Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) rules requiring brokers to assess the value other intermediaries in the chain bring can apply equally to international partners as they do domestic ones. This is according to...

All of the challenges faced over a 40 year career as a journalist covering wars, floods and disasters could not prepare Mike McCarthy for 20 February 2021 - the day which changed...