The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) expects to freeze individual case fees and its compulsory jurisdiction levy in the coming financial year. The regulator also intends to cut its voluntary jurisdiction levy for...
Read moreCleveland Clinic has appointed Dr Robert Lorenz as president of its London operation. Dr Lorenz will succeed Tomasso Falcone from 1 June - Dr Falcone has been interim president since October 2022...
Read moreThe third in our series of profiles with Health & Protection Awards 2022 winners, Rob Saunders, CEO of ActiveQuote, speaks about soaring demand for individual PMI, insurers adapting their propositions to younger...
Read moreZurich has joined CIExpert's policy information hub Insight Zone. The hub expands the existing comparison service offer a broader perspective on an insurer's policy propositions. Zurich joins other six other insurers...
Read moreLV= more than doubled trading profit from its protection business in 2022 with new protection sales rising 8% on the previous year. The mutual completed new sales of £42m in regular premium...
Read moreGovernment has launched a public consultation on plans to share data from private healthcare providers with the NHS. The project would create a single source of healthcare data in England with NHS-funded...
Read moreShepherds Friendly has corrected the value of income protection (IP) claims it paid in 2022, confirming it paid £2.25m in benefits to policyholders. The mutual previously told Health & Protection that it...
Read moreGroup Risk Development (Grid) has written to chancellor Jeremy Hunt expressing concerns about HM Revenue & Customs "flawed" interpretation of taxation on group income protection (GIP), within the context of an optional...
Read moreBupa has blamed a dearth of dentists and rising running costs as it is slashing dental services by closing, merging or selling 85 dental practices across the country. Announcing the move, Bupa...
Read moreRecord low levels of satisfaction with GP services and NHS dentistry drive dissatisfaction with the NHS to an all time nadir in 2022. The latest British Social Attitudes Survey into public satisfaction...
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