employee benefits

Phil Barton is to take on the role of Jelf CEO, succeeding Alex Alway who is to join the Marsh board as a non-executive director.

PMI consolidator Chase Templeton has completed its last major deal of 2015 through the asset purchase of Healthcare Partners, the Braintree intermediary which traded under the Avanti Healthcare brand.

Willis plans to offer Towers Watson shareholders a £117.75m ($179m) sweetener to head off legal challenges targeting the merger of the two consultants.

Danica Pension, one of Denmark's leading pension and insurance companies, has appointed Best Doctors to a three-year contract to provide Danica's customers with expert medical information and second opinion services.

There has been a revolution in the measurement of health and fitness writes Dominic Howard.

Since the arrival of auto-enrolment, the business case for linking protection and pensions has become ever more compelling, writes Jason Green.

Paul Avis says its time to rethink the state benefit link on group income protection policies.

Canada Life has announced a number of senior management team changes from 1st November 2015, which affect both the Individual Protection and Group Protection leadership.

Bupa UK has launched a self-referral service for breast and bowel cancer so customers can have access to the right specialists without needing a GP referral.

Westfield Health has launched a health and wellbeing toolkit for HR managers.