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Medical care in the UK can best be explained in numbers. Almost 3.5 million people living on these islands has cancer and every 75 seconds another person joins them. A further 5.8...

Ascend Broking Group’s success at the Health & Protection Awards was a “massive step up” and was a contributor to the broker attracting the funding to drive the business forward. This is...

The number of protection policies sold in 2025 rose 1.4% continuing the market's incremental recovery, according to data from reinsurer Gen Re. New policies sold rose to 2,042,789 last year from 2,015,560...

Advisers need to change their approach if they are to increase membership of income protection (IP) products among younger consumers, according to three industry leaders. Sector representatives noted how the product was...

Certua Life has entered the UK individual life insurance market with a group offering expected to follow. The company told Health & Protection that it will operate on a non-advised basis and...

Costa Rica stands out as a growing market with great upside for international private medical insurance (IPMI), according to Jeiko Navarro, general manager for Costa Rica at World of America. Navarro, who...

An Employee Assistance Professionals Association UK (EAPA) investigation has found that Health Assured did not meet the ethical standards expected of members surrounding confidentiality and informed consent. However after a nearly two-year long...

Legal & General saw its individual protection new business rise last year driven by consumer demand while the group offering flatlined. The insurer also revealed that a successor to departing chief risk...

The chief medical officer (CMO) of Macmillan Cancer Support has criticised protection insurers for an “extraordinary” lack of consistency in the way they verify cancer claims. Professor Richard Simcock told Health &...

Most of International Medical Group’s (IMG) international private medical insurance (IPMI) policy holders in the Persian Gulf are long-term residents and will be staying put despite the ongoing conflict affecting the region....