PMI & Healthcare

Healthcare firm HealthHero has acquired French company Qare, a telehealth firm backed by European healthtech venture builder Kamet Ventures. This latest acquisition ensures HealthHero now covers 22m lives and is on track...

The Women and Equalities Committee has called on Public Health England to use a ‘Health at Every Size’ (HAES) approach over use of Body Mass Index to determine a person’s healthy weight....

New research from the Association of British Insurers (ABI) has drawn a clear link between firms offering health and wellbeing benefits to staff and boosting productivity. The research reveals three in five (60%)...

The Life Insurance Association of Malaysia (LIAM) has re-elected Loh Guat Lan as it president. The current group managing director/CEO of Hong Leong Assurance is supported by Raymond Lew, CEO & president...

Protection brokerage Lifecover.com and specialist lending group Loans Warehouse have entered into a new strategic partnership that sees Lifecover.com become the exclusive life insurance partner for Loans Warehouse, providing protection advice for...

Jim Galbraith, the CEO of mutual life and investments organisation Scottish Friendly, has passed away. Paying tribute to Galbraith in a statement released today, the group said he had been at the...

LV= has been accused by an all-party parliamentary group (APPG) of not properly consulting members over the life insurer’s sale to private equity firm Bain Capital. In December the group announced its...

Brian Thompson has been promoted to CEO of UnitedHealthcare, the health benefits business of UnitedHealth Group. Thompson, who joined UnitedHealth Group in 2004, was most recently CEO of UnitedHealthcare's government programs including...

Thirteen healthcare organisations are calling on the government to follow through on its 2018 promise to strip the General Medical Council (GMC) of its power to appeal decisions made by the Medical...

UK employers should consider taking out health or income protection insurance due to the growing threat posed by long Covid. This is the warning from leading law firm Irwin Mitchell in light...