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Unum extends Help@hand access to large group life and CI schemes
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...
Read morePrivate hospitals must start firing unvaccinated workers in February
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...
Read moreZurich Australia appoints CMO
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...
Read moreCost of average funeral falls
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...
Read moreInsurers face talent war with higher staff attrition and soaring post-Brexit costs
Higher staff departure rates due to the pandemic and increased costs connected to sourcing talent from the EU a year on from Brexit are creating an extremely competitive labour market for insurers....
Read moreZurich launches standalone CI and standard rates for mental health conditions
Zurich has launched standalone critical illness (CI) cover for customers who do not want a product combined with life insurance. It is also widening its Total Permanent Disability (TPD) definition, offering standard...
Read moreAviva health checks return cholesterol, liver and kidney health concerns
Almost three quarters (73%) of Aviva individual and group protection customers who have returned a valid annual health check through the insurer's DigiCare+ and DigiCare+ Workplace service over the past year suffer...
Read moreRoyal London adds virtual GP and wellbeing apps to Helping Hand service
Royal London has enhanced its Helping Hand service to include health and wellbeing support for new customers with the add-ons going live for existing customers soon. The enhancements mean customers who purchase...
Read moreGreatorex replaces Knowles on IPTF steering committee
Naomi Greatorex is to replace Alan Knowles on the Income Protection Task Force's steering committee. Greatorex, the owner of Heath Protection Solutions, joins Richard Walsh, Justin Harper, Mark Jones and Setul Mehta...
Read moreWhy aren’t more women buying income protection? – IPTF
This year marks a decade since the implementation of gender neutral rates were enforced on the UK insurance market following the Test Achats case that stopped insurers charging different male and female...
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