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Bupa is opening up its individual private medical insurance (PMI) product, Bupa By You, so intermediaries will be able to sell it to consumers.

Zurich UK Life has revealed it paid out 94% of income protection (IP) claims to customers during 2013.

Aegon UK has announced the redundancy of its Protection Distribution Director and plans to take on new hires, as it embarks on restructuring its Protection business.

Canada Life Group Insurance has expanded its Best Doctors service offering with the launch of Doctor Online.

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The UK's economic recovery is "not yet secure", Chancellor George Osborne has warned, ahead of next month's Budget.

Aegon's UK business has reported a £5m fall in earnings before tax for the final quarter of last year, which it said is the result of a £7m spend on technology including on a non-advised platform.

Across England and Wales one in 25 people (4.3 per cent of the usual private household population; 2.4 million people) have self-reported they are in ‘good' health despite a disability, the 2011 census found.

The only way the government's new Health and Work Service (HWS) can work effectively is if "people are forced" to take part, says Jelf Employee Benefits head of benefits strategy Steve Herbert.

Monetary Policy Committee members predict any rise in the Bank base rate, currently at 0.5%, which occurs over the next two to three years will be gradual.