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Complaints about protection and health insurance products have continued to rise with private medical insurance (PMI) and income protection (IP) seeing the greatest increases, according to the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS). Data...

The Protection Distributors Group (PDG) has said a number of important questions remain unresolved following its review of We Buy Life Policy. In response, We Buy Life Policy said it wants to...

In an international private medical insurance (IPMI) market that is becoming increasingly heated with premium rises it is increasingly evident that being able to take calm, considered action will be needed to...

Legal & General has told Health & Protection it remains committed to the group critical illness (CI) market despite telling an adviser it was temporarily halting all quoting "as company" for the...

Enhancing affordability, outcomes and experience through value-based healthcare (VBHC) is possible, despite the complexity and barriers. It has been 20 years since Michael Porter and Elizabeth Teisberg’s 2006 book Redefining Health Care...

Advisers have called for continuity in maintaining government initiatives such as Keep Britain Working and the Milburn Review tackling youth labour market inactivity following Yvette Cooper’s appointment as health secretary. Cooper is...

HealthHero has told Health & Protection it has successfully completed the refinancing required to provide the business with the “significant financial headroom” to pursue its strategic growth ambitions. The refinancing closed in...

Financial education, making protection a ‘national priority,’ and keeping on with Keeping Britain Working should be prioritised by the UK’s new prime minister. The long held goal of tax incentives to encourage...

When the Covid lockdowns ended more than four years ago, workers emerged into a new world where working from home out of necessity became working from home by choice. This gave those...

Employee benefits such as group life and health insurance schemes will only be permitted on a reinsurance basis under the UK’s new captive insurance regime with another primary insurer being required. Meanwhile,...