A research conducted by Aviva UK Health revealed that staff suffering from cancer disease does not wish to join back their services. The employers try their best in fetching them back to work.

First-quarter sales of the U. K. insurer, Aviva fell 14% this year as compared its sale during the same quarter last year. The insurer has said that the decline in profit was due to its plan to move away from selling lower-margin products in areas such as Europe and the U. S.

Healthcare insurance giant Aviva has defended itself after it was accused of misleading people into false claims that they were not planning for a price hike.

It was reported that many people switched to Aviva, in particular, from VHI after it announced a sudden rise in the prices of its services.

In order to reduce costs, the UK's second largest insurer, Aviva will be cutting jobs in Canada.

The Company announced on Tuesday that in order to shrink costs worth £200m by 2012, it will be laying off a few hundreds of jobs in Canada.

Aviva, an insurance group, has annoyed its major shareholders by not disclosing the details about its RSA's bid worth £5bn for its general insurance business. The management of Aviva is facing criticism from its leading shareholders for concealing this fact.

Insurance Sector is high on the news radar. It has remained in the spotlight for a while now. Yesterday however, it created a ruckus in the news world with the report of Aviva having rejected a bold bid.

The bid was made for its business in the general insurance matter. The bid was made by one of its smaller rivals based in the United Kingdom – RSA.

Are you planning a holiday, and feel scared that adverse factors like the recent volcanic-ash eruption in Europe, or even terrorism, might scuttle your festivity? Don’t worry. Aviva has an insurance policy in place for this as well. Come June, the company’s add-on will now insure air travelers against the risk of flight cancellation due to volcanic ash or terrorism.

The recession had hurt just about everyone, but the financial industry had been particularly pulled down. But then again, it saw high times as well. Insurers, however, did not seem to be too happy during recession as they ended up paying for most of the things, without getting anything in return.

The participants are all set to face the hardest ever challenge that will be put forth by the Benjamin Sheares Bridge in the initiated Aviva Ironman 70.3 Singapore. Termed "Preparation for Life", this campaign will include the triathletes who earlier completed the course.

After enduring the recession by cutting costs and trimming about 11,000 roles from its workforce, Insurance giant Aviva has surpassed profit expectations in the year 2009. These can be viewed as the initial signs of an improving market as the customers are planning to save again.