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Cigna is withdrawing from the UK domestic private medical insurance (PMI) and healthcare trusts market, Health & Protection can reveal. At present the insurer offers group PMI schemes and healthcare trust administration...

Justin Harper is joining MetLife and taking on a new role as individual protection product manager at the insurer. Harper (pictured) previously spent more than 16 years at LV= before leaving earlier...

Royal London has joined CIExpert's digital dashboard Insight Zone. The insurer's range of personal and business menu plans, including the whole of life plan and diabetes life cover, will be available in...

Complaints about income protection (IP) insurance dropped by 15% in the first quarter of the 2022-23 financial year, according to data from the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS). The latest data showed 171...

IPipeline has agreed a partnership with customer relationship management (CRM) software provider Plannr. The development of Plannr was funded in part by a kick-starter campaign among future users of the platform. It...

Advice firm Beckett Financial Services has joined group risk industry body Grid. Lesley Delaney, operations director at Becketts, said: "We can see so many opportunities in membership of Grid, and we’re very...

The pandemic has focused minds on our own mortality as never before - and high net worth (HNW) individuals are no different, with behvaiour shifts becoming apparent. In terms of their own...

Royal London has expanded its signature-free beneficiary nomination, an alternative to setting up a plan trust, to its whole of life plans. The feature was introduced on personal menu plans for individual...

Four in 10 UK homeowners have no savings to cover mortgage payments if they fall ill and are unable to work. This is according to a survey of 2,000 homeowners which showed...

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has updated its minimum standards for critical illness (CI) policies that must be adopted by all insurers offering these products. Changes have been made to how...