Protection

There has been a dip in satisfaction levels about insurers among SMEs, an industry poll has showed. The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) said that throughout 2019, 82% of SMEs were satisfied with...

Employees are now more engaged in their organisation’s activities, goals and health and wellbeing benefits – perhaps as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic – research suggests. A snapshot – and a...

Care homes across England are struggling under “immense” pressure with staffing absence levels over 50% in some areas of the country, it has been claimed. The National Care Forum (NCF) – a...

Gallagher has announced it is to acquire North West-based broker The Bollington Wilson Group for an undisclosed sum. Bollington, which was founded in 1973 as a local community broker, has since grown...

A senior cancer specialist has warned that an increasing number of patients are likely to die as individuals with Covid-19 are “prioritised” over them as the country struggles to control the pandemic....

A fifth of workers who have been forced to self-isolate during the pandemic but are unable to work from home have received no sick pay or wages at all, union leaders have...

Insurance industry customer and policy management platform Instanda has appointed former Aviva SME head Will Wood as its head of life and health. Wood joins Instanda after 15 years at Aviva, where...

Swiss Re is to ‘double down’ on its efforts to make sure the insurance industry does all it can to support people with their health and wellness needs. The global insurance powerhouse...

  A cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS) engine that allows insurers’ underwriting rules to be reoptimised and incorporate latest medical insights has launched. UnderwritingPal (UWPal), the engine being launched by RGAX,...

Employers are being urged to do more to promote the employee benefits that they offer to staff as part of the recruitment process. The Office for National Statistics estimates there were 547,000...