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IPMI Report: Adviser confidence dips to post-Covid levels
Intermediary confidence in the international private medical insurance (IPMI) market has dipped to levels seen following the Covid-19 pandemic, Health & Protection’s latest IPMI Report has found. In contrast provider confidence in...
Read moreFCA and insurers seeking quicker death notices to speed-up life claim payments
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is working with insurers to explore faster ways of finding out if someone has died and speed-up death claims payments. The regulator has been particularly outspoken and...
Read moreNHS restrictions and mental health drive employer health strategies – research
Difficulties in accessing NHS care will have the biggest impact on reshaping workforce health and wellbeing strategies over the next five years, according to employer research. HR leaders also said the effect...
Read moreMunich IPMI Roundtable: Global fairness and equitable benefits
It is sometimes easy to look across the great range of multinational workplaces and industries and compare how and why they employ the benefits schemes they have. There are some industries primarily...
Read moreRoyal London pays record £751m in protection claims
Royal London paid 98.7% of all protection claims made in 2024, posting another record total of more than £751m as 65,385 claims were approved. The figure was £20m more than in 2023,...
Read moreFCA sending data requests to protection insurers as firms warned regulator will be ‘more overt’ on distribution chain
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is sending data requests and detailed questionnaires to insurers in the protection insurance sector as part of its market study. The requests are asking for data from...
Read moreAIA Group announces Mark Tucker as new chairman
Hong Kong-based AIA Group has announced that Mark Tucker will return to AIA to succeed Edmund Sze-Wing Tse as group board chairman as of 1 October 2025. Tucker, who was previously CEO...
Read moreAnxiety and low mood driving calls to EAP helplines – Zurich
Poor mental health, particularly anxiety and low mood, continue to be the primary driver of calls to Zurich's employee assistance helplines. Zurich's Corporate Risk report reveals anxiety and low mood accounted for...
Read moreProtect Z: AI advisers have their uses, but don’t have all the answers
Despite seeing their potential, generation Z (born between 1997 and 2012) does not think AI advisers have all of the answers at present. This is according to panellists who were asked whether this...
Read moreProtect Z: Tailor underwriting to mental health needs of smartwatch resisting Gen Z
Generation Z (born between 1997 and 2012) needs to be underwritten in a different way - mindful of their propensity to eschew smartphone use and openness around mental health. This was one...
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