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Stonebridge has promoted John Scrivens from head of sales to sales director. Scrivens (pictured) will join the board and assume responsibility for the network’s protection and general insurance propositions while Jo Carrasco, who...

The Protection Distributors’ Group (PDG) is calling on advice firms and networks to tell their employees and customers if they are operating with loaded premiums. The subject was raised in a press...

The UK’s SME sector is vast, diverse and full of momentum, and for intermediaries and insurers focused on growth, it remains a major engine of opportunity. However, this is not a market...

Legal & General’s retail protection business has simplified its life and critical illness policy documents in a bid to make them easier for customers to understand and help advisers to explain cover...

IPipeline has appointed Ben Grant as vice president, sales and marketing for IPipeline UK and Europe. Leading a newly combined sales and marketing organisation, Grant (pictured) will be responsible for devising and...

One in three men would not tell their partner if they had cancer. This is according to a survey of 3,000 men conducted by Bupa and released ahead of Valentine’s Day. The...

Swiss Re has appointed Jennifer Gilchrist as protection industry affairs manager. Gilchrist (pictured) joins from Royal London where she was a protection specialist. She had been with the mutual since January 2009....

The number of people waiting to start NHS treatment in England has fallen to 7.29 million, according to official data. Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (RHQ) did not submit any data...

The Investment & Life Assurance Group (ILAG) has added OneFamily Group and its protection brand, Beagle Street as members. The trade association, whose membership includes professionals from the life insurance, pensions, and...

No government has ever gone far enough in promoting or incentivising occupational health to effectively reduce pressure on the NHS or the tax burden on the population. This is according to Matthew...