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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...

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...