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Nine in 10 advisers think income protection (IP) sales will grow over the next five years. This is according to the Protection Distributors Group's (PDG) Protection Insights Report 2026. The report reveals...

Complex issues involving multiple regulators and critical stress tests are being simplified by artificial intelligence (AI) and other technologies, the World of America Convention has heard. Regulation is an ever-present subject for...

Heidi has acquired UK-based clinical AI firm AutoMedica as it bids to evolve from an AI scribe to an AI care partner. The firm said its acquisition will seek to bring clinical...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) will look into claims experiences and incentives for consumers to switch products as part of its pure protection market study. The regulator has already confirmed it will further...

Three adviser groups will be represented at the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) pure protection market study stakeholder workshop. The workshop will bring together adviser, insurer and consumer representatives, primarily through seven trade...

MoneySupermarket has launched a ChatGPT app enabling customers to use AI to compare provider offerings across financial services - including health and life insurance. The app, which uses AI to search more...

Myriad reasons are to blame for a year-on-year increase in complaints about income protection (IP) products, advisers have told Health & Protection. These include an over scrutiny of claims from providers, long...

Advisers need to focus clients’ minds on life's essentials and to think about how they might cope should the worst happen. This is according to Louise Colley, director of retail protection at...

Globacare has joined the Association of Medical Insurers and Intermediaries (AMII) as an intermediary member. The broker advises on individual, SME and corporate private medical insurance, alongside global health insurance and protection...

Healthy life expectancy for men and women across the UK has fallen to its lowest level on record, according to data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Furthermore those born in...