Health Shield is extending its Home Asssistance offering to members' parents in a bit to ease the pressure for employers and employees of providing post-hospital care.

Denplan has completed its first two 50/50 dental partnerships with practices in South Yorkshire.

Unusual Risks has reported that 75% of UK life insurers are now offering some form of HIV Life Assurance.

Canada Life Group Insurance has chosen AXA PPP healthcare to provide employee support services to its 2.7m insured employees in 23,500 employer-funded schemes

Sesame has adopted iPipeline's research, quote and apply portal, SolutionBuilder, as part of its enhanced protection proposition for members and their customers.

Westfield Health is inviting start-ups and entrepreneurs from the health and wellbeing sector to pitch for partnership, investment and business support opportunities with the company.

Scottish Widows has introduced electronic General Practitioner (GP) reports into its protection policy underwriting process to make it simpler and quicker to obtain customers' medical information from their GP practice.

Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron has urged the government to reconsider rising insurance premium tax (IPT) to 12%.

Some 1 in 7 employees had been absent for four weeks or more in the previous 12 months, according to research from Ellipse.

Paul Roberts discusses what changing retirement trends will mean for the protection market.