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The Great Resignation saw vacancy rates in the UK reach a record high of almost 1.3 million in January as many people sought roles with flexible working practices or new employment in...

Bupa has launched a list of consultants for all its UK private medical insurance (PMI) products that will not charge patients additional fees. The insurer said around half of the 22,000 consultants...

Allianz Life Insurance Malaysia Berhad has appointed Charles Ong Eng Chow as chief executive officer (CEO) effective from 1 April, 2022. He succeeds Joseph Gross, who will takes the role of head...

AIG Life has updated and cut the cost of optional child cover on its term assurance with critical illness (CI) plan. The insurer has returned to the maximum sum and percentage method...

Protection insurance planning could come under greater scrutiny from customers as a result of chancellor Rishi Sunak's failure to properly address the country's cost of living crisis, advisers have warned. They also...

The chancellor should have used his Spring Statement address to incentivise private medical insurance to tackle record NHS wait times, according to David Middleton, chairman of the Association of Medical Insurers and...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has come under fire for drawing a link between money raised through National Insurance Contributions to fund the health and social care levy and expenditure on the NHS. The...

Britons will suffer their biggest fall in living standards on record during the next 12 months, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has predicted. And the agency warned that living standards may...

The National Insurance Contribution (NIC) lower threshold will be increased by £3,000 in July to bring it into line with the Income Tax personal allowance lower limit. However, the move has been...

UK inflation hit a 30-year high of 6.2% in February as measured by the consumer prices index (CPI), up from 5.5% in the previous month. Insurers have warned that the duration of...