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Bupa Global and Doha Insurance Group have signed a strategic partnership agreement to provide international private health insurance (PMI) products and solutions in the Qatari market.  Health & Protection understands the move...

Government's impending national insurance contributions (NICs) increase is causing employers to increasingly discard group income protection cover in order to retain the immediate benefit to the workforce provided by group private medical...

Bupa’s pre-tax profit rose more than 70% to almost £1bn in 2024, however its UK and Global insurance division saw profits slip 15% over last year. Bupa's group pre-tax profit hit £972m,...

Maxis Global Benefits Network (Maxis GBN) has revealed it is now working with Danica, a health insurance solutions company in Denmark. As part of the agreement Danica will offer life, critical illness,...

Professor Dame Janet Husband has decided to step down from the board of Spire Healthcare Group at its annual general meeting on 14 May 2025 and will not seek re-election by shareholders....

Chubb has announced agreements to acquire the insurance businesses of Liberty Mutual in Thailand and Vietnam.   The terms were not disclosed.   The move will help to expand Chubb's global footprint. Chubb...

Providing access to a GP and musculoskeletal and mental health benefits could wipe out 80% of the UK's productivity crisis and save the exchequer billions of pounds a year. This is according...

  It is estimated there are more than 890,000 working-aged people (16 to 65) living with cancer in the UK, and this number is set to rise to 1,150,000 by 2030. For...

Health and protection insurance complaints to the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) increased by almost 20% for the third quarter of the 2024 financial year – compared to the same period last year. ...

UAE-based Lifecare International has appointed of Vishal Bhargava as group chief financial officer (CFO).  Bhargava was previously the CFO at NAS Neuron Health Services for more than four years.  Prior to that...