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Six out of 10 financial service companies have increased the number of women working at a senior management level over the past year, according to the latest Treasury report on this issue....

Royal London has paid out £13.1m in Covid-related claims since the start of the pandemic.  The insurer published these figures after industry-wide data showed that the industry as a whole has paid...

LV= has paid out over £12m in Covid-relating claims to date, supporting more than 1,400 policyholders and their families. This covers life insurance, critical illness and income protection claims. The first Covid-related...

The Money and Pensions Services (Maps) is to launch a new consumer-facing brand MoneyHelper, which will focus on financial wellbeing. The Maps name will not disappear, but the main advice services offered...

Bupa is rebating £125m to its UK health insurance customers following the temporary disruption to some medical treatments last year as are result of the pandemic. The rebate equates to roughly one...

Virtual visits and remote patient monitoring will be the key drivers of the emerging telehealth sector, which is set to attract investors with growth projections of 29.4 per cent a year for...

Almost 900 dependants received pay-outs following Covid-related deaths of workers covered by group life in the period to the end of 2020, says Group Risk Development. Pay outs to this group of...

Almost a quarter of UK office workers don’t take any breaks during their working day, apart from lunch breaks, and 46 per cent of people said that their employers and line managers...

Uber’s decision to extend pension to 70,000 employees, alongside sickness insurance cover creates an opportunity to deliver group protection benefits to millions of gig workers says Legal & General. The ride hailing...

The “health of the nation” has been the focus of the last twelve months of everyone’s lives. However, there is light at the end of the tunnel with the commendable vaccination programme...