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Blue Cross Blue Shield Global Solutions (BCBS Global Solutions℠) today announced a strategic partnership with Carrot, the leading global fertility and family care platform, to deliver comprehensive fertility, family-building, and hormonal health benefits to its expatriate members. This collaboration unites two world-class organizations to provide members with more personal, accessible, and high-quality care, anywhere in the world.
GeoBlue today announced it will now operate under the name Blue Cross Blue Shield Global Solutions. The new name, visual identity, and a single, streamlined website all reflect the company’s core purpose: simplifying the international healthcare experience for organizations, individuals, and Blue Cross® and Blue Shield® companies with health insurance solutions for those who work, travel, study, or live abroad.
Unum UK has officially launched Health Plan 360, a new kind of health cash plan designed to meet the needs of the modern workforce.
The launch comes at a time when UK businesses are under pressure. Sickness absence is at its highest in over a decade, productivity remains low, and tighter budgets are forcing employers to rethink how they support their people.
Lloyd’s, the world’s leading insurance and reinsurance market, today announced its results for the first six months of 2025 with gross written premium increasing to £32.5bn (HY 2024: £30.6bn) and a combined ratio of 92.5% (HY 2024: 83.7%). The market remains on track to deliver the Full Year Results previously guided.
Policybazaar for Business, the B2B arm of Policybazaar.com, today announced the launch of its reinsurance operations in Sri Lanka, Qatar, Oman, and the UAE. With this step, it becomes one of the first India-based intermediaries to take a technology-driven reinsurance model to international markets, addressing efficiency and capacity gaps in some of Asia and the Middle East’s most dynamic insurance ecosystems.
Aon plc (NYSE: AON), a leading global professional services firm, released insights from its inaugural 2025 Insurer Wellbeing Benchmarking Report offering a comprehensive analysis of the health and wellbeing services provided by insurers across mainland China. The report highlights both the breadth of services available and the critical gaps that remain in delivering measurable health outcomes and employee satisfaction.
Health Compass, a leading InsurTech platform in the international private medical insurance (IPMI) market, announces the full integration of an AI Agent within its distribution platform. This breakthrough technology will directly advise, guide and support clients in identifying the IPMI coverage that best suits their needs – in any language.
In this iPMI Global breaking news article, we look at the new strategic collaboration between WTW, a prominent global advisory and solutions company, and Klarity, a UK-based health data analytics firm. Their joint effort focuses on revolutionizing life insurance underwriting accuracy by integrating wearable technology and health data into the assessment process. This initiative aims to provide more personalized and precise risk evaluations for individuals, moving beyond traditional metrics to incorporate real-time health insights like heart rate and sleep patterns, leading to fairer pricing and enhanced customer engagement within the insurance industry. The collaboration also highlights WTW's broader offerings in people, risk, and capital solutions across various industries globally.
AIA Hong Kong has once again led the industry with the most market No.1 in the first quarter of 2025, according to the Provisional Statistics of the Insurance Authority on Hong Kong Long-Term Insurance Business*.
Mr Alger Fung, Chief Executive Officer of AIA Hong Kong & Macau, said, "The continued achievements would not have been possible without our team's daily commitment to putting our customers first. We are also deeply grateful to our customers for their long-standing trust and support.
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