Zurich pays out £392m in individual protection claims in 2025
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Omni Protect chooses Caspian Insurance as protection referral partner
Omni Protect, Fintel's whole of market protection club proposition, is using Caspian Insurance as a referral service for its firms....
Guardian adds critical illness and combined life value options
Guardian has added two new ‘core’ covers - Critical Illness Essentials and Combined Life and Critical Illness Essentials - to...
Dubai broker builds add-on to freeze health insurance premiums for five years
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PMI providers covering complication-cutting weight loss treatment ahead of surgery would ‘clean up’ – Schofield
Any private medical insurer who made it clear that they would cover weight-loss treatment to cut the risk of complications...
WTW adds Everest’s funeral concierge service to benefits portfolio
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AI ‘industrialising’ complaints and poor service blamed for rising PMI and protection grievances
Artificial Intelligence’s (AI) ability to ‘industrialise’ the complaints process as well as poor service levels from insurers and advisers alike...
Pivotal picks Jon Round as Pivotal Financial chairman
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Shepherds Friendly pays £3.25m in IP claims in 2025
Shepherds Friendly paid £3.25m in new income protection (IP) claims last year, up slightly on the £3.23m paid out in...
Healthi joins Grid
Health insights platform Healthi has joined group risk industry body Grid. Ryan Hopkins, founder and CEO at Healthi, said: “I...
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