The Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN) plans to implement a new approach to publishing consultant fee arrangements via its portal next year which will help the private medical insurance (PMI) sector. However...
Read moreIan Smart is retiring after 38 years in the insurance industry – the majority of which has been at the heart of the intermediated protection market. Smart left his position as product...
Read moreThis week the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published the final rules and guidance for its landmark Consumer Duty. The rules promise to trigger a major shift in how the financial services industry...
Read moreA former mortgage broker has been jailed and disqualified from being a director for a second time after committing mortgage and loan fraud. Cindy Brad from Melton Mowbray illegally obtained £200,000 from...
Read moreThe Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) failure to explicitly ban loaded premiums under its Consumer Duty means the pressure is on insurers and distributors to justify continuing the controversial practice, according to St...
Read moreThe combined impact of the pandemic and an intensifying war for talent has meant demand for group risk benefits from employers has never been so high. While advisers do not think mandatory...
Read moreSmall business leaders do not trust insurers promoting the importance of cover for their employees and organisations, a Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) commissioner has warned. Liz Barclay, small...
Read moreMarianne Cowie, strategic execution manager at Zurich, speaks to Health & Protection about corporate attitudes towards gender presentation, getting to a good place in ensuring workplaces are LGBTQ+ inclusive and how the...
Read moreAviva has criticised members of the critical illness (CI) industry who it says put out a “negative spin” about claims being paid. The insurer noted this was particularly important as the sector...
Read moreFewer than 100 complaints were made against advisers regarding the most common protection and health insurance products in the last year, Health & Protection can reveal. Data from the Financial Ombudsman Service...
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