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The Exeter posts £4.3m loss as claims soar but premium income and membership up
The Exeter reported a loss of £4.26m for 2025, an improvement on the £8.51m deficit it posted in 2024, as claims and adviser commission rose across its health and protection products. However,...
Read moreIPMI Report: Two IPMI providers found with at least one million members
Two major international private medical insurance (IPMI) providers have at least one million members, Health & Protection’s latest IPMI Report has found. Data published from two of the largest IPMI providers for...
Read morePrevention crucial to lowering PMI costs but ‘you have to stick with it’ – Dr Patel
The case for preventative healthcare has never been stronger to address some of the huge challenges facing the medical system, the Association of Medical Insurers and Intermediaries (AMII) health and wellbeing summit...
Read more‘I’ve never felt I had to hide myself away’ – Sam Traynor, Shepherds Friendly
Sam Traynor, product development and pricing actuary at Shepherds Friendly, speaks to Health & Protection about encountering presumptive people early in his working life in another sector, his more positive experience in...
Read moreStarmer resigns as PM with ex-health secretary Streeting backing Burnham
Sir Keir Starmer has resigned as prime minister and leader of the Labour party following several weeks of turmoil. Former mayor of Manchester and newly-elected MP for Makerfield Andy Burnham has confirmed...
Read moreBeagle Street life and CI product details with pricing to reflect ‘individual risk’
Beagle Street has launched its first two protection products into the intermediary market – life insurance and critical illness (CI) plans. Health & Protection has key details of the products - which...
Read moreBeagle Street launches into adviser protection market
Beagle Street has formally launched into the advised protection market with its first life insurance and critical illness (CI) products. The launch follows a pilot with a group of intermediaries, whose feedback...
Read morePast 24 months has put decades of progress at a tipping point – John Hilson, Axa
John Hilson, COO risk director, Axa UK and Ireland, speaks to Health & Protection about passive engagement with Pride, the importance of inclusive language and why the past two years has put...
Read moreIPMI Report: Confidence falls below post-pandemic level as adviser incomes slowing
Intermediary confidence in the international private medical insurance (IPMI) market has continued to fall and dipped to levels below the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic, Health & Protection’s latest IPMI Report has...
Read moreStop punishing people and treat some mental health disclosures as a ‘green flag’
Protection insurers should resist raising the red flag when it comes to individuals who disclose they are proactively taking care of their mental health. This is according to panellists who were participating...
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