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After Fidelity Senior Manager in Finance Angeline Mahwendepi had a baby, she started running to stay fit. She ran three times a week thinking that was enough to keep her fit and healthy. The trouble was that when she wasn’t running, she was quite ina...

The use of generic drugs could cut the cost of healthcare in Bermuda, an insurance company said. Naz Farrow, chief operating officer for health with the Colonial insurance group, said: “Overall, the generics are less expensive than the brand. “In ord...

Bermuda’s national health care issues are indeed numerous (eg, access, pricing, coverage, funding etc) and one of the Island’s biggest fiscal drains. Rapidly rising healthcare costs undermine the all-important confidence of small and medium-sized bus...

Freisenbruch-Meyer Insurance Services Ltd (FMIS) says it will no longer provide individual and group health insurance. However, their health insurance customers need not experience a lapse in coverage, and there has been no loss of jobs, the company ...

Government has agreed to pay out on $15 million worth of rejected health insurance claims after receiving a wave of calls from panicked seniors. Health Minister Pat Gordon-Pamplin told The Royal Gazette that rumours of a cut to the subsidy for aged c...

Employees across the Island may discover their pay packets shrinking in the coming months as health insurance increases of as much as 20 percent kick in. Most insurance companies are having to increase their fees to cover increases in Bermuda Hospita...

BF&M says earnings are being impacted by soaring health costs, including a spike in the cost of cancer treatment. President and CEO John Wight said the insurance company basically has seen a reduction in the number of lives covered but increasing sev...

Endurance Specialty Holdings last night reported a year-end net income of $92.1 million and easily beat the expectations of analysts on Wall Street. The gain compares with a Q1 2012 net income of $74.4 million. Bermuda re/insurer reported an operatin...

A medical practice has resorted to hiring its own debt collector to track down a soaring number of patients refusing to pay. The company has accumulated roughly $300,000 in unpaid bills since 2011, said one doctor, who requested anonymity for this st...

Income and education are the top determinants in both the health and health spending of Bermuda’s residents. The Health Disparities Report 2013, released yesterday by the Bermuda Health Council, shows the extent to which social and economic forces af...