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In July, the government published its response to its consultation document, 'Health is everyone's business'. When the consultation was first published, we were disappointed to see it was close to silent on the...

Perhaps surisingly incoming critical illness (CI) enquiries appear to have fallen away as the pandemic has taken hold in favour of income protection (IP), advisers have told Health & Protection. However insurers...

The initial stage of the pandemic caused a dramatic fall in the number of diagnoses of the three most common forms of cancer in Scotland. Data from Public Health Scotland reveals that...

US broker and risk management firm Risk Strategies has acquired employee benefits insurance agency Better Business Planning. Terms of the deal were not announced. Based in Itasca, Illinois, Better Business Planning specialises...

Abu Dhabi's department of health (DoH) has clarified that Golden visa applicants not currently employed in the emirate must ensure they have valid health insurance when there. The clarifications from Abu Dhabi's...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and HM Treasury (HMT) will be consulting this month on tighter rules for the appointed representative (AR) regime. The regulator also revealed that it plans to publish...

Manulife Hong Kong has appointed Candy Au Yeung as chief operations officer. Yeung (pictured) joins from Prudential Hong Kong where she most recently led on customer service, claims, medical network and policy...

The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) saw it’s workplace benefits spend including healthcare and protection cover soar by almost £1m in the last year. In its annual report the regulator said its benefits...

Unum UK has appointed the former chairman of GoCompare Stuart Vann (pictured) as an independent non-executive director. Vann, who will also take on the role of audit committee chairman, is a qualified...

The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) spent more than £1,000 per case in the last financial year and revealed its backlog in cases grew to more than 90,000 as the Covid pandemic hit...