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MetLife UK paid more than £34,189,519 to individual protection customers in 2025 - approving and paying 31,553 claims across its accident and illness policies, up 16% from claims paid in 2024.  ...

IHC Employee Benefits SME account manager Tim Clarke speaks to Health & Protection about his second life as the voice of Weston-super-Mare FC (pictured) following the side’s historic FA Cup third round...

Health & Protection rounded out a busy 2025 for the protection market with our Individual and Business Protection Report House of Lords roundtable. The discussion was as animated as the previous 12...

The government has been pushed to explore and explain the quality and availability of insurance for people with sickle cell by one of its MPs. Claire Hazelgrove, Labour MP for Filton and...

The launch of ChatGPT Health marks another step in the expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) and similar technologies into the health information space. However, advisers have raised concerns about individuals sharing personal data...

Karen Gittings, senior corporate benefits consultant at Titan Wealth Planning, speaks to Health & Protection about retiring this spring after almost 50 years in the sector. A career that began with a...

The international private medical insurance (IPMI) sector is still feeling the after-effects of the Covid pandemic with delays to treatment a key factor behind rising medical inflation, according to SIP Medical Family...

Legal & General’s (L&G) retail protection business is clarifying complex underwriting questions and adding more examples to its underwriting application. The insurer said in a bid to make the process simpler and...

PIB has hired Samuel Marriott to the newly created role of business protection adviser. PIB told Health & Protection the newly created role reflects the company’s growth and investment in its individual...

The Exeter is increasing payments for members’ in-patient NHS stays and is adding a new day-patient benefit for eligible NHS day-case treatments. It is also removing the excess deduction for these benefits....