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The Exeter reported a loss of £4.26m for 2025, an improvement on the £8.51m deficit it posted in 2024, as claims and adviser commission rose across its health and protection products. However,...

Eleven members of the Association of Financial Mutuals (AFM) approved more than 92% of new income protection (IP) claims made in 2025. Furthermore, AFM members increased IP sales by around 7%, selling...

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) is preparing a “multimedia multi-year” campaign to educate consumers about key terms and elements of insurance products. The trade body revealed the plans at a House...

Advice firm ExpatInsure is opening a new office in Larnaca, Cyprus. The move enables it to establish a base in the EU and a platform from which to expand its international health...

Shepherds Friendly has appointed Laura Gauden as head of sales with a brief to grow the mutual society’s intermediary partnerships. Gauden (pictured) brings more than 20 years of mortgage and insurance intermediary...

Sam Traynor, product development and pricing actuary at Shepherds Friendly, speaks to Health & Protection about encountering presumptive people early in his working life in another sector, his more positive experience in...

The human loop is essential to adopting new technologies and insurers will have to understand their employees’ artificial intelligence (AI) IQ when implementing changes, Health & Protection's IPMI breakfast briefing has heard....

Beagle Street has launched its first two protection products into the intermediary market – life insurance and critical illness (CI) plans. Health & Protection has key details of the products - which...

Rising medical inflation should be seen as an opportunity to make private medical insurance (PMI) products relevant for modern consumer needs, according to Jenny Nye. The head of proposition for Aviva Health...

Beagle Street has formally launched into the advised protection market with its first life insurance and critical illness (CI) products. The launch follows a pilot with a group of intermediaries, whose feedback...