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Why employers are reassessing corporate healthcare spend – Talbot
The first few months of the year are always the busiest for corporate healthcare renewals, and this time around, the conversations have quite a familiar feel. Cost still opens the discussion, but...
Read moreAdvisers blame soaring IP complaints on speculative claims, non-disclosure, insurer scrutiny and sales surge
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...
Read moreWoA Convention: Personalised service, underwriting and medication the future for IPMI
Personalisation of service, underwriting and treatment, including drugs and medication, is critical to the future of international private medical insurance (IPMI) in Latin America, the World of America Convention has heard. Leaders...
Read moreBring protection conversations back to essentials and a back-up plan – Colley
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...
Read moreAMII adds Globacare as intermediary member
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...
Read moreHealth & Protection launches special AI in Insurance section
Health & Protection is launching an exclusive AI in Insurance microsite. The site explores this pivotal time for the whole health and protection insurance industry including the regulatory, ethical and practical implications of...
Read moreWoA Convention: Reducing treatment costs and improving efficiency vital for LATAM IPMI
Tackling surging costs and improving the efficiency of market operations is critical for the Latin America international private medical insurance (IPMI) market, the World of America Convention has heard. Insurer leaders agreed...
Read moreWoA Convention: ‘Bright future’ for IPMI growth in ‘aspirational’ Latin America as product becoming ‘mainstream’
Leaders in Latin America international private medical insurance (IPMI) told the World of America Convention they are highly upbeat about market growth expectations with a “bright future”. They noted this was potentially...
Read moreFCA Protection Market Study will take firm-by-firm approach to ‘outlier behaviour’ – Rathi
The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) Protection Market Study will mirror the regulator’s Premium Finance Study's firm-by-firm Consumer Duty approach rather than implementing any market-wide interventions, according to CEO Nikhil Rathi. Upon release...
Read moreIPTF adds four members and confirms IPAW dates
The Income Protection Task Force (IPTF) has added Swiss Re, Instanda, RGI Solutions and Fineos as members. The additions take membership to 39. The IPTF also revealed its Income Protection Action Week...
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