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Scottish Widows has paid £1.15bn in life and critical illness (CI) claims since January 2000 equating to over £2m each week.

The government has vowed to press ahead with reform of the welfare state as its latest statistics show less than a quarter of those applying for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) are successful.

Aviva has called on the government to offer incentives to employers who offer workplace health and rehabilitation services to address sickness absence.

The ABI has urged the FSA against introducing "radical interventions" in product regulation in a strongly-worded rebuke of its recent discussion paper.

Birmingham Council's raising eligibility thresholds for adult care to "critical" have been judged unlawful.

Morgan Price International Healthcare has launched a new expatriate health insurance plan, ESSENTIALCare.

Employers underestimate the importance of the benefits they offer staff after new research revealed half of employees would move jobs for better benefits.

The High Court today ruled banks must look again at hundreds of thousands of PPI cases, following an unsuccessful judicial review by the British Bankers Association (BBA) against the FSA.

NHS Alliance has instigated a competing listening panel to that put together by the government for the Health and Social Care Bill.

Long term care (LTC) specialist Partnership has criticised plans put forward by James Lloyd of the strategic Society Centre think tank for compulsory LTC insurance.