Private medical insurance (PMI) adviser-consolidator Chase Templeton has completed its second acquisition within a week with the purchase of Glasgow intermediary Chartered Life.

Denplan has upgraded its website with new responsive features designed to help companies deliver their dental benefits ‘more effectively.'

The Work and Pensions Select Committee has today announced the first oral evidence session for its inquiry into Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and Work Capability Assessments (WCA).

PruProtect has launched a business protection risk calculator as it believes this insurance is becoming a 'core area' for advisers.

Exeter Family Friendly has launched a level premium option on its Income One income protection (IP) plan.

Friends Life will be raising awareness of how businesses support employees who have cancer at a conference attended by NHS staff.

Income protection provider British Friendly has launched a new online application process for financial advisers.

Ageas Protect paid out 89.3% of critical illness (CI) and children's CI protection claims in 2013 - the first time the protection provider has published its claims performance since it entered the market in 2008.

Unemployed people looking for work were almost twice as likely as those in employment to have a limiting long-standing illness or disability, the latest figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) has revealed.

The Financial Conduct Authority has taken control of the consumer credit industry from today promising tough rules for short-term high-cost credit firms and debt management companies.