Compliance & Regulation

The Association of Medical Insurers and Intermediaries (AMII) has released the first details and view of its training and education platform for the private medical insurance (PMI) market. The organisation is building...

Income protection (IP) sales have soared due to a number of factors including customers' increased appetite for normal retirement age products and the product potentially making gains at the expense of other...

While employers see the value of group income protection (GIP) as a means of early intervention to keep employees at work and and demand for this benefit is holding up, economic pressures...

Employers must comply with Health and Safety Executive (HSE) occupational risk assessments requirements - not least as failure to do so can form the basis of successful personal injury or injury to...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is consulting on ending its requirement for insurance firms to review the value of their product at least every 12 months. Under its proposal, firms would instead...

Baroness Nicky Morgan is seeking to launch an inquiry on women's financial resilience in the House of Lords. Speaking at the Women in Protection conference, Baroness Morgan (pictured) told delegates the inquiry...

Health and income protection (IP) insurance complaints reported to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) rose in 2024, according to latest data from the regulator. However, complaints about life and critical illness did...

Cathryn Riley, a non-executive director with the Financial Services Compensation Services Scheme (FSCS), is to step down from its board with effect from today (30 April 2025) after more than four years...

Private hospitals, clinics and other employers need to continue to take steps to comply with the Supreme Court's ruling on biological sex. This is despite a challenge to the ruling being led...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has announced plans for a live artificial intelligence (AI) testing service, aimed at facilitating the safe use of the technology within the financial sector.   The regulator...