Protection

UK employers could issue a surcharge for unvaccinated employees enrolled into their health or protection benefits scheme but run the risk of discrimination claims being brought against them, a lawyer has warned....

US benefits technology platform Benefitfocus has added a number of options from American Public Life Insurance Company (APL) to its offering. Services added include accident cover, critical illness insurance, hospital indemnity, cancer...

Health insurers are closely monitoring the shortage of blood test tubes which has caused NHS England to order doctors to stop all primary care and community testing for three weeks unless it...

Howden Employee Benefits & Wellbeing has appointed Mark Ramsook as director of global employee benefits development for Europe and Latin America within its global employee benefits team. Ramsook (pictured) joins from Willis...

Employee benefits consultancy and financial advice firm Mattioli Woods has bought a Buckinghamshire-based independent financial adviser in a deal worth up to £1.8m. The purchase of Richings Financial Management is for an...

US life insurance and financial services firm OneAmerica has promoted Kelley Gay (pictured) to chief marketing officer (CMO). Gay, who has worked in various leadership capacities for more than a decade at...

The protection sector's great hope for gold at this year's Paralympics is back out on court training after one of the Team GB wheelchair tennis squad tested positive for Covid. Mortgage and...

The shift towards working from home is likely to mean older employees continue working for longer and remain in better health with less sickness absence. A report from the Office for National...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) says it forced providers to cut remuneration and extend cover after finding that protection and general insurers are not meeting its product value rules. The regulator warned...

Social skills outrank technical knowledge and computer literacy as the most important competency requirement for new entrants to the insurance sector. This is according to a social media poll of of 800...