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Preventative healthcare is the hot topic among health insurers and organisations as they try to keep employees fit and healthy while also reducing the strain on budgets covering significant healthcare bills. In...

Health & Protection is conducting its first survey of the Latin America IPMI market and wants to hear about the big issues driving the industry. We want to hear views from brokers,...

Critical illness (CI) sales exceeded 480,000 in 2025 with standalone CI policies accounting for more than one in four, according to data from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). The regulator’s official product...

Aviva’s new virtual agent will not be taking on more complex claims related to bereavement or critical illness, the insurer's CEO has revealed. Dame Amanda Blanc, group CEO of Aviva (pictured), also...

UnitedHealthcare Global (UHG) is exiting the international private medical insurance (IPMI) market in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The move was revealed alongside confirmation that a deal has been...

Advisers may be required to justify why a beneficiary nomination or trust has not been used when taking out a life insurance policy, according to Ron Wheatcroft, technical manager at Swiss Re....

The latest warnings from experts is that artificial intelligence (AI) is going to kill us all, but will it kill off the role of advisers first? Over the summer of 2023, Health...

Insurers, advisers and other key partners in the protection insurance sector have been urged to strongly consider and act to avoid products being used for economic abuse. They have also been pressed...

The potential to address claims data, consumer understanding of critical illness and loaded premiums have been rejected in deference of secondary growth objective, says Fairer Finance managing director James Daley.   When...

Comedy legend Jo Brand will host the UK Health & Protection Awards 2026 - which are now just a month away. The BAFTA-winning star of Getting On and Through The Cakehole is...