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Aviva is now offering £15,000 of free life cover for parents through all channels, including advisers.

Zurich has announced that it paid over 91% of its critical illness claims in 2014 to 750 customers with payments amounting to over £63.1 million.

Allianz Global Assistance UK has called on insurers to help bridge gaps in social care.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has said it will look to take even earlier pre-emptive action against what it believes is bad practice in a bid to counter accusations from the industry that it unfairly employs retrospective regulation.

The government should make sickness absence policies ‘more flexible' to allow employees with fluctuating health conditions to pre-emptively arrange part-time sick leave, a report has urged.

Bupa is launching a wellbeing app that lets employers support and encourage the entire workforce to improve their health.

Health guidelines such as recommended intakes of salt and recommended exercise are unknown to members of the public, a survey for Nuffield Health has found.

The NHS could make savings and expand services by moving away from hospital care and tendering outcome-based contracts with non-NHS organisations, a report from LaingBuisson has said.

One third of insurers authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) are 'in some form' of wind down; Paul Fisher of the PRA has said.

Protection and life cover software firm Ipipeline has teamed up with Openwork to offer advisers a way of producing multiple quotes for protection products which it claims will help them boost their protection sales.