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Aegon has been formally accredited as a Living Wage employer. The life insurer revealed while it has informally adopted the real Living Wage with its workforce for many years, the official accreditation...

Shepherds Friendly has joined the Protection Distributors Group (PDG) claims charter. The charter incorporates a number of pledges including having a dedicated claims team to handle all telephone-based claims alongside a process...

Health insurers have revealed to Health & Protection whether their workplace schemes will cover Covid-19 testing as employers are urged to look into all options to source lateral flow tests. This follows...

Almost 60,000 people who submitted a claim for state disability benefits in 2020 were still awaiting a decision four months into this year. This accounted for 10% of cases submitted last year,...

While the subscription economy appears to be booming, a survey from Simplyhealth reveals just 13% of adults in the UK are paying monthly for health benefits. And it appears the vast majority...

A primarily digital GP service has published research which shows its patients incurred acute hospital costs between 15% and 35% lower than the regional average. It said the lower costs were incurred...

AIG Life has appointed Michael Aitchison as chief actuary. Aitchison (pictured) joins the UK life insurance arm of AIG on 2 August and will report to chief financial officer Donald MacLean. Aitchison...

More than 13,000 employers have been warned by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) for not providing a Covid-19 safe working environment. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) revealed that as...

Royal London is to re-join the Income Protection Taskforce (IPTF) this month after a year away. The move takes the total number of IPTF members to 29, including 14 full members, nine...

The pandemic has had the combined effect of focusing people's minds on the fact they are not invincible and causing many to interrogate their employer's group risk offering for the first time....