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Premier Choice Healthcare (PCH) has acquired Bournemouth-based private medical insurance (PMI) intermediary Equity Health Solutions. The value of the purchase is not being disclosed, but following its acquisition Equity Health Solutions will...

Business leaders need to stop using buzzword phrases such as 'diversity is good for business' unless they can back it up with solid evidence, according to Zurich. Speaking at the Chartered Institute...

The number of prostate and testicular cancer claims insurers are handling appear to have dipped during the pandemic with a worrying trend also appearing. As Movember, the annual event involving the growing...

It never ceases to amaze me that, as an industry, we haven't taken steps to outlaw the practice of temporary underwriting. This is where the insurer does not have sufficient information to...

The future of adviser commission in the protection market maybe under the regulator’s microscope as it continues its long-term vision, according to incoming Aviva managing director of protection Fran Bruce. In an...

Updated: The accused and four co-defendants have since been acquitted of the allegations in 2023.   An Indian man has been arrested after trying to stage his own death using a cobra...

The number of breast cancer claims appear to have largely held up during the course of the whole of pandemic when compared with 2019 levels, insurers have told Health & Protection. Vitality...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s decision not to raise the personal allowance limit and thresholds for Income Tax is expected to earn the government an additional £20bn in the next four years. Sunak did...

In the first edition Alfie Jaques, client support manager at Hooray Health & Protection, speaks to Health & Protection about how he got his start in the sector, why the pandemic proved...

Demand for virtual GP services is soaring despite in-person medical consultations opening up and insurers expect this trend to continue, with several seeing numbers more than doubling already. While government has provided...