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Assured Futures is restoring unemployment cover availability to UK customers through a partnership with comparison site Comparethemarket. While unemployment cover was pulled by all providers last spring due to the pandemic, Assured...

Simplyhealth has appointed Jenni Wilson (pictured) as sales director, joining from Nuffield Health. She will replace Pam Whelan who left her position earlier this year, as Health & Protection exclusively reported last...

Almost 600 patients were urgently transferred to receive emergency care and 340 died following treatment at private hospitals in the year up to June 2021, according to data from the Private Healthcare...

Advisers are taking a pragmatic to return to homeworking requirements and are having to be flexible around festivities this Christmas. This morning, new rules came into effect ensuring people in England should...

The UK retail cash plan market has broken through the half a million customers barrier, Health & Protection can exclusively reveal. Health & Protection’s landmark Retail Cash Plans and Dental Plans Report...

Insurer MetLife UK has agreed to become underwriter for YuLife’s group life cover policies. The partnership will see YuLife continuing to own its’ customer relationships and propositional offering while MetLife will be...

Claims services business Handl Group has acquired organisational health and wellbeing business Robertson Cooper for an undisclosed sum. Manchester-based Robertson Cooper was founded more than 20 years ago by Professor Ivan Robertson...

Royal London has confirmed it will enter into exclusive talks about merging with LV= following the collapse of Bain Capital's deal to takeover of the mutual. At a special general meeting this...

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is adding the sale of BMI Priory hospital as a potential requirement to fulfil the Circle Health and BMI Healthcare merger which was completed last year....

The Worldwide Broker Network (WBN) has appointed Alan Fergusson as global employee benefits practice leader. A former consultant for WBN, he joins from Beneficia where he was responsible for delivering complex projects...