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Fairer Finance has warned of a ‘hollowing out’ of private medical insurance (PMI) and protection products to facilitate distribution through price comparison websites. James Daley, managing director of the consumer group, warned...

The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) has published new guidance to support insurance and personal finance firms in managing data relating to customers in vulnerable circumstances.  The Data Privacy for Customers in Vulnerable...

VitalityLife paid £149m in claims across life, serious illness and income protection (IP) in 2025 – almost 5% up from £142m the previous year. The life insurance approval rate was up slightly...

More than 230,000 UK companies have multinational operations with SMEs and the technology sector driving the international expansion as outbound and inbound moves are increasing. Research conducted for Howden Employee Benefits by...

The Prudential Regulation Authority’s (PRA) new UK captive insurance regime will go live in the middle of next year. This is according to Shoib Khan, director of insurance supervision at the Bank...

While overall income protection (IP) applications and volumes have increased 7% and 56%, respectively, year-on-year, the market still faces a protection gap that remains "stubbornly large". This is according to the third...

Employers who offer their employees group risk benefits saw 68% of their absentees return to work during 2025, according to data compiled by group risk industry body Grid. The trade body also...

Many organisations now recognise the importance of investing in workplace mental health. But there’s still a gap between how leaders view their team's mental health, and how employees experience it.   Unfortunately, leaders...

Regulators are becoming “quite antsy” on underwriting decisions and the potential for algorithmic biases in insurance is a “very hot topic”, Health & Protection’s IPMI breakfast briefing in association with Flywire has...

Celebrities like Love Island’s Molly Mae will never effectively educate young people about protection products and it is too late to start cutting Generation Alpha off from social media. These were two...