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The Skandia brand has formally disappeared from the UK, all the company's operations are now part of the Old Mutual Wealth brand.

Towers Watson has assessed insurer's investment implications in case of a Scottish of ‘Yes' vote.

Laws governing insurance contracts are to be updated by the government to provide more modern rules and to bring Britain in line with other countries.

Reinsurers are facing increasing competition and need to adapt to a changing market a forthcoming publication by Standard & Poor's (S&P) will say.

Friends Life managing director for UK protection Steve Payne is to leave Friends Life following a post-Budget review conducted by the insurer.

Discovery has released its results for the year ending June 2014, showing a pre-tax operating profit of £39.2m earned by its UK businesses PruProtect and PruHealth.

Employee Assistance Programmes (EAP) result in employees being three and a half times more likely to cope with the demands of their job, with 21% rating their ability as "good" or "very good" prior to receiving counselling, compared to 75% afterwards....

Friends life has announced three competitions ahead of the Tour of Britain, of which it is a main sponsor.

Olympic gold medal winning cyclist Chris Boardman has been named as the ambassador for the Friends Life Tour of Britain.

LV= has appointed Myles Rix as Managing Director of its protection business.