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Providers are looking into the challenge of designing IPMI products that accommodate workers who wish to spend some of their year in the UK and some of it overseas. Linda Beavis, principal,...

Income protection provider Dentists’ Provident has appointed Matt Payne to its board as an executive director. Payne (pictured) will take operational oversight of the information systems team in his new role. A...

Axa and Aetna International are the largest providers in the international private medical insurance (IPMI) sector according to Health & Protection’s inaugural market report. Axa covers 850,000 lives under IPMI policies, although...

Vitality has appointed Louiza Deevey as national account manager - key accounts for VitalityHealth. Deevey (pictured) will focus on the sales, business development and strategic tenders for Vitality’s national intermediary partners in...

Axa Health is offering personalised, fertility, early parenthood and menopause support through its large corporate schemes from today. The insurer is will be utilising Peppy’s digital health app. Corporate customers choosing to...

Health & Protection is launching its inaugural international private medical insurance (IPMI) report including provider service ratings. The report is available to download for free by advisers, intermediaries and brokers operating in...

Employee benefits provider Unum has extended access to its health and wellbeing app Help@hand to large group life and critical illness schemes at no cost, meaning all workplace schemes now have access...

Private healthcare providers in England will need to start firing or reassigning unvaccinated workers from early next month. A guidance document released by the NHS England late last week revealed that the...

Zurich in Australia has appointed Dr Bill Monday as chief medical officer. A CMO for 25 years, Monday has worked with life insurers and reinsurers in Australia and around the world. In...

The cost of the average funeral has gone down in the UK for the first time since at least 2004. This is according to life insurer SunLife's 2022 Cost of Dying Report...