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California-based Alliant Insurance Services has acquired Florida-based Health Market Solutions, (HMS).  HMS has been experiencing rapid growth in direct-to-consumer sales of Affordable Care Act (ACA) under-65 individual health insurance plans.   HMS...

SIP Medical Family Office has acquired the client portfolio of Expat Assure for an undisclosed fee. The move follows Raymond and Karen Leprêtre's decision to retire. Antoine Cartiser (pictured right) and Chantal...

Anne Drugnick is to head Secondsight’s health and protection division, following the successful acquisition and integration of Punter Southall’s employee benefits advisory business. Drugnick (pictured) joined Punter Southall back in 2002 as...

The Liberal Democrats have pledged to give cancer patients a legal right to start treatment within 62-days after an urgent referral should the party win the upcoming general election. Liberal Democrat leader...

The health insurance industry in Hong Kong has seen gross premiums for accident and health business increase by more than 12% for the first quarter of 2024, according to provisional statistics from...

The shortlists for the UK Health & Protection Awards 2024 adviser categories have now been revealed. The shortlists cover 15 categories spanning the breadth of the health and protection insurance industry. This...

Lifepoint Healthcare has appointed Lianne Harrington as senior healthcare adviser. Harrington (pictured) joins from Ascend Healthcare where she was director of healthcare. She has been succeeded by Kristian Breeze in this role....

Nearly 900,000 admissions were made to private hospitals in the UK in 2023, according to data from the Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN). The data collected from more than 600 private hospitals...

The Exeter has reported that since the introduction of unlimited remote GP appointments within its HealthWise app in November 2023, requests for these appointments have risen by 142%. And Health MOTs have...

The Conservatives have committed to building 100 new GP surgeries in England and boosting the number of available appointments by allowing more treatments in the community, should they retain power and win...