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Insurers are not focusing on introducing digital business channels for fear of upsetting and disrupting advisers and intermediaries, according to Swiss Re-backed technology provider IptiQ. The firm warned that regulatory interventions would...

Mortgage sourcing software provider Twenty7Tec has bought Bluecoat Software which owns the Finplan customer relationship management (CRM) system used by many protection advisers. The Finplan CRM is used by more than 300...

Advisers are warning that the severity of medical inflation in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is making international private medical insurance (IPMI) unsustainable in the region. The panel at Health & Protection’s...

Halcyon Trustees is launching as the first consultancy dedicated to supporting corporate healthcare trusts. The organisation is led by managing director John Dean and consulting director Elliott Hurst who together have more...

LV= has paid more than £5.4m in income protection (IP) and personal sick pay claims between January and April 2022, almost 10% up on last year. By comparison, in the same period...

HCA Healthcare UK's Lister Fertility Clinic has opened a fertility centre at The Portland Hospital in central London. It is the second location in the capital and will provide an array of...

Friends outrank GPs as the most popular point of contact to talk about the perimenopause or menopause, according to research from MetLife UK. The research was carried out by Censuswide in February/March...

Minimum qualifications for health insurance intermediaries must be introduced to ensure all customers achieve better healthcare outcomes, advisers have argued. The panel at Health & Protection’s Middle East international private medical insurance...

British Friendly has launched level guaranteed premiums on its short and long-term income protection Protect product as a new, second premium option in addition to its existing age-costed guaranteed premiums. The mutual...

Legal & General paid just over £335m in group protection claims in 2021, up almost 4% on 2020. The provider's 2021 group claims data reveals group critical illness cover claims almost doubled...