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LV= is launching a new YouTube campaign ‘Near Misses' highlighting the provider's Sick Pay Insurance.

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is reducing some of its demands on private healthcare providers and practitioners to address lack of competition and consumer detriment issues in the market.

Ageas Protect paid out 89.3% of critical illness (CI) and children's CI protection claims in 2013 - the first time the protection provider has published its claims performance since it entered the market in 2008.

Unemployed people looking for work were almost twice as likely as those in employment to have a limiting long-standing illness or disability, the latest figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) has revealed.

Chancellor George Osborne has written to the chairman of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) criticising the regulator for its "damaging" behaviour in releasing details of its investigation into insurance policies before a formal announcement.

Leaders of UK businesses including Bupa, BT, RBS and Mars are collaborating to launch a new campaign that aims to end the "stifling" culture of silence on mental health in the workplace.

The Financial Conduct Authority has taken control of the consumer credit industry from today promising tough rules for short-term high-cost credit firms and debt management companies.

An upcoming change in business law may result in UK firms struggling to contain sickness costs, Canada Life Group Insurance has said.

Royal London's operating profits for 2013 were up to £346m, with new business accounting for £70m of the gains.

Industry campaigners have welcomed confirmation the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) will consult on the re-introduction of a 15-year time limit on complaints against advisers reaching the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS).