PMI & Healthcare

US health benefits platform TakeCommand Health has closed a $12m (£8.6m) Series A funding round led by LiveOak Venture Partners and SJF Ventures. The tech start-up says it will use the additional...

Broker services provider BenefitMall has partnered with New Jersey health insurance provider Horizon Health Services to integrate Horizon submissions through its online enrolment platform. The integration means group applications, employee elections and...

There has been a dramatic 29% fall in complaints about protection insurance products, according to data from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Analysis of the complaints data shows there were 61,834 complaints...

A Derbyshire coach driver has been sentenced for submitting bogus health insurance claims through his employer’s healthcare scheme to the tune of more than £8,000 for himself and his family. A statement...

While firms increasingly understand the importance of providing health and protection benefits to staff in these times, the severe economic downturn caused by the pandemic has meant many are choosing to put...

Deepak Jobaputra is moving to a newly-created chief sustainability officer role for the whole Vitality group with Justin Skinner stepping in as managing director of VitalityLife. Jobanputra has been with VitalityLife, which...

Almost half of mortgage holders do not have any financial protection in place and one in five were adamant nothing would make them consider protecting themselves, MetLife research has found. For those...

US-based health advisory firm Curi has appointed Brad Diericx as chief operating officer of its insurance solutions business. Diericx will take charge core elements of Curi's insurance business, including its medical professional...

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...