Protection

Keeping the society's promise to pay claims and support tens of thousands of customers is the standout achievement for departing Cirencester Friendly chief executive officer Paul Hudson. This morning the income protection...

Shepherds Friendly has partnered with healthcare provider Nuffield Health to offer a range of additional benefits to its income protection (IP) membership. The three new health and wellbeing benefits from Nuffield are...

Group life payments for Covid-related deaths soared in the first half of the year to more than 35% above the total for all of 2020, according to trade body Grid. The total...

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...