Economy

US president Joe Biden is moving against short-term health insurance, referred to as junk insurance, with the aim of boosting the effectiveness of Obamacare. Under new rules, short-term insurance would be for...

Guardian has joined the Group for Autism, Insurance, Investment and Neurodiversity (Gain) as corporate member.   Through its membership, Guardian said it “seeks to provide better support to neurodivergent people within its business,...

Global health premiums will likely contract in 2023 as post-pandemic normalisation continues, according to a Swiss Re report on the state of insurance across the world.  "We estimate that global medex premiums...

Premium volumes declined in the UK last year, but its insurance market displaced Japan to become the third largest in the world, according to Swiss Re. The UK moved up to third...

The number of people joining the ranks of people who are economically inactive due to long term sickness declined by almost 30,000 in the UK over May. Data from the Office for...

A 'perfect storm' has created extraordinary private medical insurance (PMI) rate increases for UK employers, with some facing rate increases of more than 50%, with an average increase of close to 20%,...

An economic system that is based on capitalism, coupled with an aging demographic, has helped to ensure that health costs in Hong Kong are among the highest in the world. Stephen Ho,...

Babylon Health is to delist from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), as it moves ahead with its plans to merge with Swiss digital therapeutics firm MindMaze. The move coincides with the...

Across the globe, there has been an increase in international private medical insurance (IPMI) premiums for both individual and family health insurance premiums in more than 90% of the countries surveyed for...

If a new Labour government comes into power after the next election, insurance companies must not seek to replace the NHS, but rather only compliment it, according to Andy Harrop, general secretary...