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Confidence in UK financial services is at a 17 year high, with firms anticipating a greater recovery in volumes, profitability and employment in the fourth quarter.

The majority (91%) of insurance industry executives have said big data/analytics will be a main source of competitive differentiation for insurers, according to a poll.

Zurich has launched group spouse/partner life insurance cover for its corporate risk customers.

The Court of Appeal has found the process deciding those eligible for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) disadvantages people with mental health problems, learning disabilities and autism.

Aviva and Legal and General are among the six insurers that have agreed to collectively invest £25bn in UK infrastructure over the next five years.

The challenge for protection insurers in today's market is to adapt their approach so products are "bought, not sold", a report by Swiss Re concludes.

Healthcare will be the increasing focus for many organisations and their HR departments in 2014, according to Jelf Employee Benefits.

Advisers have welcomed the Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) first crack-down on an advisory firm which had permissions to advise but no actual qualified advisers, although they say the regulator should have acted sooner.

More employers should become ‘disability confident', the disability employment service provider Remploy urges.

Nearly 650,000 UK workers call in sick each week, according to figures from the British Heart Foundation.