The Insurance Surgery has been bought out by the management from founder Paul Mellor, funded by Seneca Partners' Special Situations Fund.

VitalityLife has launched a Business Consultant Talent Academy to increase their number of business consultants offering support for advisers, with the first eight graduating this month.

APRIL UK will switch its claims handling to Healix from 1 September 2015 for their private medical insurance (PMI) plans, to go paperless and end the 'archaic' paper-based service.

The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) has warned it will demand compensation awards from businesses for non-financial errors if they are deemed to have failed vulnerable clients by "rigidly applying rules".

Iain Clark has been announced as British Friendly Society's new marketing and distribution director, having previously been managing director for protection at LV=.

Royal London saw its protection intermediary new business volumes increase by 43% to £231m, the insurer's half year results have revealed.

In 2014 £3.44bn was paid by protection insurers on nearly 128,500 policies, compared to £3.08bn on 98,900 policies in 2013, ABI figures have shown.

Non-advised life insurance broker Protect Line has joined TenetLime's network.

Unum has added AgeingWorks, an online portal for elder care support and guidance, to all its group risk policies.

Premier Choice group has hired five new advisers from both the insurance and intermediary markets.