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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has cut the number of employees its new Health and Work Service (HWS) will be able to support back to work by more than a third.

LV= has become a full member of First Complete's protection panel bringing the number of providers on the panel to nine.

The group risk industry has applauded the latest Swiss Re Group Watch 2014 report, which it said ‘demonstrates the market's continued efforts to promote and deliver these highly valued employer-sponsored protection benefits to a greater proportion of...

The overall UK group risk market grows by 2.8% to nearly 11 million people at the end of 2013, according to Swiss Re's Group Watch 2014.

Friends Life has announced enhanced free cover level limits and increased rate guarantees to 3 years on all Group Protection products in enhancements to its Group Protection Online quote system.

Zurich has launched new adviser website, developed in partnership with advisers.

The SimplyBiz Group has launched a Protection Academy for its members to improve their knowledge and understanding of the protection market.

Chase Templeton has bought Ealing-based SJS Healthcare Associates.in a deal, adding £2m in annual premium income to the intermediary's books.

House prices are expected to rise by 10% this year and in 2015 due to a loosening of credit conditions, rising wages and a structural shortage of housing.

Nearly three quarters of firms are still failing to show clients the true cost of advice, the regulator has found in what it calls a "wake-up call" for the industry which has already put two firms at risk of enforcement action.