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The financial services regulator has rejected the option of introducing an insurer guided private medical insurance (PMI) staff benefits policy because it leads to a “reduction in choice and convenience”. The Financial...

Spire Healthcare has seen private medical insurance (PMI) generated revenue return to pre-pandemic levels, but it still registered a loss of almost £9m in 2021 despite an improved financial performance. According to...

Swiss Re’s IptiQ protection insurance technology provider has adopted a beneficiary nomination technology which aims to remove the need for trusts to ensure death benefits are paid to the correct person. The...

LifeSearch CEO Debbie Kennedy set out her vision for growing the protection market at the advice firm's awards yesterday. Addressing guests at the annual ceremony in the City of London, Kennedy committed...

Broker firm Reassured has revealed life and critical illness insurance pay-outs for its customers in 2021 to date have reached £29.4m. The data from Reassured and its insurance partners show 973 claims...

Axa Global Healthcare has appointed Xavier Lestrade as CEO, replacing Tom Wilkinson who is stepping down on 1 May. Lestrade is currently global head of employee benefits for Axa Domestic Markets and...

MyLifeKit is set to launch LifeScore, a new app which merges health-related, environment and world data and credit-related data to offer users a score of a person’s life based on their physiological...

Aviva's protection & health business saw profits rise 21% year-on-year, according to the insurer's full year 2021 results. The group's results released this morning, reveal its protection & health business posted operating...

There are no signs that the lost ground in critical illness claims over the pandemic is being made up, according to Craig Paterson, chief underwriter at Royal London. Speaking to Health &...

HCA Healthcare UK has appointed Soraya Chamberlain as vice president of corporate sales. Chamberlain, who joins from Axa Health where she was director of its corporate division, is a former director of...