Early intervention on employee absence can markedly increased return to work rates, according to Legal & General.

The British Orthopaedic Association (BOA) has released an updated statement for its surgeons regarding Bupa's plans to review arthroscopic knee operation referrals.

Ageas Protect has seen strong growth protection business in the first quarter of the year but reported a pre-tax loss.

Groupama has revealed it is poised to relaunch a product while also actively seeking partnerships with hospital networks to add to its private medical insurance (PMI) offering.

The government has given the green light to reforms which will mean insurers, not consumers, have the responsibility to provide all information regarding underwriting risk.

The British Insurance Brokers' Association (Biba) has withdrawn its private medical insurance (PMI) scheme for members to remove a clause that handed all currently held business to its partner Jelf.

Prime Minister David Cameron has promised to make ‘substantive changes' to the NHS reforms currently before Parliament.

Defaqto has said it believes short term income protection (IP) products are likely to become the replacement for payment protection insurance (PPI).

With changes afoot in the critical illness market, Owain Thomas asks if its time for the sector to put aside its differences and move forward

The fit note is not reducing absence yet as sickness time off increased to 190 million lost working days at a cost of £17bn to employers last year, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has said.