Nearly a quarter of employees feel a major impact when colleagues are absent, Aviva UK Health research has shown.
AXA PPP International has introduced cover for chronic conditions to its top two medical insurance plans.
Following feedback from intermediaries, Engage Mutual has enhanced its Guaranteed 50 Plus Life Cover for the intermediary market.
The collapse of Southern Cross may be repeated by other care home operators as local authorities have frozen the rates they will pay for their funded care home residents.
The UK's largest employers expect public health reform plans to cost their firms dearly as they are expected to pick up a greater share of health provision.
Friends Life has produced two new guides to help advisers to make the best use of social media.
Groupama Healthcare has announced enhancements to its online administration tool, EasyAdmin.
An insurance fraud police unit is to be set-up, paid for through a police-private sector partnership.
The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) has appointed Graeme Sutton as director of corporate development.
The number of private medical insurance (PMI) policies in the UK (insured and self-insured) fell by 3.8% to 3.96m at the start of 2011, according to Laing and Buisson.