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Mercer Marsh Benefits has appointed Chris Bailey as UK & Ireland region leader and managing director. Bailey (pictured) succeeds Tony Wood, who moves to the role of regional leader and managing director...

Extending suicide prevention training to client facing staff resulted in a life saving intervention for a fraud analyst at the Bank of Ireland (BoI), the lender revealed. Speaking on the first day...

Insurance and benefits marketplace Collective Benefits has received a US$10m investment from Prosus Ventures, the venture investing arm of Prosus. Collective Benefits offers insurance and benefits for independent workers across sectors. This...

The number of prostate and testicular cancer claims insurers are handling appear to have dipped during the pandemic with a worrying trend also appearing. As Movember, the annual event involving the growing...

Resolution Life has taken full ownership of Resolution Life Australasia by acquiring AMP Limited’s minority equity interest in the business for AU$524m. Resolution Life established itself in the Australasian market with the...

LV= is offering members £100 cash and increases to with-profits policy payouts if they approve the proposed £530m acquisition by Bain Capital. The insurer published its voting pack detailing the expected financial...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is making the most of data and intelligence as a means to find out which financial advisers are more likely to deliver poor advice, the regulator has...

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...