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Demand and willingness to pay for private healthcare are growing rapidly in the UK as short-term pressures combined with a long-term decline in NHS funding has begun to show on the public...

The Income Protection Task Force (IPTF) has announced the second edition of its Income Protection Awareness Week is set to return from 19 to 23 September. The IPTF confirmed the week will...

Towergate Health & Protection employees are helping to beta test financial wellbeing app ZavFit. The app aims to help people with their money fitness and tackle the impact worrying about finances has...

The financial services regulator has rejected the option of introducing an insurer guided private medical insurance (PMI) staff benefits policy because it leads to a “reduction in choice and convenience”. The Financial...

Spire Healthcare has seen private medical insurance (PMI) generated revenue return to pre-pandemic levels, but it still registered a loss of almost £9m in 2021 despite an improved financial performance. According to...

Swiss Re’s IptiQ protection insurance technology provider has adopted a beneficiary nomination technology which aims to remove the need for trusts to ensure death benefits are paid to the correct person. The...

LifeSearch CEO Debbie Kennedy set out her vision for growing the protection market at the advice firm's awards yesterday. Addressing guests at the annual ceremony in the City of London, Kennedy committed...

Advice firm LifeSearch has published a report which strongly criticises broker firms operating a non-advised human sales process and those insurers most supporting that process. The report includes independently conducted mystery shopping...

Broker firm Reassured has revealed life and critical illness insurance pay-outs for its customers in 2021 to date have reached £29.4m. The data from Reassured and its insurance partners show 973 claims...

Axa Global Healthcare has appointed Xavier Lestrade as CEO, replacing Tom Wilkinson who is stepping down on 1 May. Lestrade is currently global head of employee benefits for Axa Domestic Markets and...