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Health and protection advisers want unconscious bias training to avoid the pitfalls of erroneously held preconceptions about their clients. The findings come from in-depth interviews with 100 advisers conducted by BVA BDRC...

Protection advice firm LifeSearch has joined 26 financial services firms in signing up to a new Association of British Insurers’ (ABI) charter aimed at increasing flexible working to improve diversity and equality...

Workers with post Covid syndrome want their employers to adopt a flexible, collaborative approach to easing them back into work. This is according to Dr Jenny Lunt, lecturer in health psychology and...

Advisers and brokers still have time to submit their entries for the UK Health & Protection Awards. The awards feature the best of the advisers, brokers, insurers and providers operating in the...

Royal London paid out a record £591m in protection claims last year with £13m paid to families who had experienced a death due to Covid-19. The mutual insurer revealed it paid 99.6%...

Safeguarding basic benefits such as medical insurance and pensions has created a better sense of security among Ikea's workers in the pandemic. This is according to Ulrika Biesèrt, global people and culture...

Almost two thirds of firms offer employees some kind of insurance protection benefit, according to the latest CIPD/Simplyhealth Health and Wellbeing at Work survey report. The report shows 64% of firms offer...

LSL has begun an adviser hiring spree after agreeing a five-year deal to provide protection advice to all members of The Property Finance Group (TPFG). The Property Franchise Group has more than...

Global financial assistance product provider CPP Group has appointed Carl Carter as CEO of its UK business. Carter (pictured) succeeds retiring UK MD Michael Whitfield who will remain with CPP Group, taking...

Half of UK employers are failing to comply with legislation introduced last year on sick pay, according to research undertaken for group risk protection industry body Grid. The Employment Rights (Employment Particulars...