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Fiona Murphy rounds up key points from the Association of Medical Insurer and Intermediaries AGM held yesterday.

The overall level of economic waste, currently £109 bn per year [1], from long term disability and short term sickness absence is unacceptable and is damaging for our economy and society writes John Ritchie.

Fiona Murphy talks to Dr. Bippon Vinayak about why he launched Square Health, his plans for working with the protection industry, speeding up the screening process through IFAs and how his background in plastic surgery earned him the nickname 'the Rhinoplasty...

As group income protection providers continue to morph from insurance to service providers - now with the addition of dispute resolution - advisers need to ensure their corporate clients know what's available and helping them take full advantage, writes...

L&G's Richard Kateley says that advisers should make the protection insurance conversation much more personalised and appealing to clients.

New disruptive insurer Lemonade says it can pay claims in just 3 seconds. Kevin Carr takes a closer look at whether this approach could work in the UK protection market.

Hodgkin lymphoma (HL), previously known as Hodgkin's disease is an uncommon cancer that develops in the lymphatic system: a network of vessels and glands that spread throughout the body writes Fergus Bescoby.

Chancellor Phillip Hammond announced a further £2bn for social care funding as well as a Green Paper on social care. Fiona Murphy rounds up post-budget views from financial services.

When it comes to hot topics for intermediaries, the rise of automated advice is never far from the top of the agenda, writes National Friendly's Jonathan Long.

Ensuring value for money in the world of employee benefits is inherently important to employers, and will become increasingly so now the government has changed its approach on salary sacrifice. Making the most of the benefits already in place is going...