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This is the last day to vote in the UK Health & Protection Awards 2025. Advisers, brokers and other intermediaries including employee benefit consultants can vote to recognise the providers they believe...

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has appointed David Otudeko as director of regulation. Otudeko (pictured) who joined the ABI as assistant director, head of prudential regulation, in June 2021, has been...

Plans in the US for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to collect American's health records as part of a study into autism have been branded as "outdated, medicalised thinking that risks...

Legal & General has rolled out a series of changes to its critical illness and income protection products while quote validity periods are being extended to tackle longer mortage processing times and...

Blue Shield of California has suffered a data breach that may have included millions of patients protected health information being shared with Google Analytics and then Google Ads. A listing on the...

Chedid Insurance Brokers in Qatar has announced the appointment of Alaa Ladkani, head of its international networks division, to the board of the Worldwide Insurance Network Group (WING).  WING, based in Zurich,...

Aviva has appointed Matt McGill as managing director for health, taking over from Steve Bridger who held the role for five years. Bridger (pictured) has been appointed chief claims officer for UK...

The Boss, Bach, Coldplay and even an adviser's son's own band feature among our latest list of stress-busting songs the great and the good from the sector listen to in order to...

LifeSearch has expanded its agreement with specialist military insurer Trinity to now provide private medical insurance (PMI) advice for veterans and the extended military community. This follows last year's deal to provide...

Insurers have outlined to Health & Protection how the changes to national insurance contributions (NICs) will effect employers with group income protection (GIP) plans. UK businesses now have to pay higher National...