HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has launched its first ever ‘Super Podcast', to alert businesses to major changes in the way they file and pay VAT, PAYE and corporation tax.

CIGNA HealthCare is uplifting the reimbursement limits on its dental plans from the 1st of April 2010.

Health insurer Universal Provident's AKG financial strength rating has been upgraded from ‘C' to ‘B-‘.

Friends Provident is launching three new business protection seminars, aimed at advisers who have different levels of business protection knowledge.

Nearly half (24 million) of people in the UK have no insurance in place to cover loss of income through illness or the death of a breadwinner.

The Law Commission has called for a shakeup of outdated laws governing care provided to the elderly and disabled.

Tele-underwriting has swiftly been embraced in the protection and health insurance industries, but, as Andrew Gething tells Paul Robertson, there is a way to go. Not least a greater degree of adviser interaction.

Bright Grey paid 93% of critical illness (CI) claims last year, with just 2% declined for non-disclosure.

GRiD, the trade organisation for the Group Risk industry, has called for a National Insurance reduction for firms with Group Income Protection Schemes.

Groupama Insurances' combined profitability for the UK operations (before tax and amortisation) reduced to £14.1 million (2008: £30.1 million).