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Insurers have reported a 13% rise in their private medical insurance (PMI) membership totals as the market continues to boom. The figures are included in Health & Protection’s latest Individual Private Medical...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued a stark warning to protection insurers about “poor selling practices” and slow restorative action and is demanding better due diligence of new advisers. The regulator...

WPA has launched a new private medical insurance (PMI) plan for individual and retail customers which includes options for a no claims discount (NCD) and excess payments. The new Complete Health plan...

'Lunch and learn' sessions have helped drive inward protection enquiries for Home Mortgage Solutions. This is according to the adviser's managing director Kate Stratton (pictured), who participated in the first day of...

Axa Health has appointed Heather Smith as chief executive officer (CEO). Smith (pictured) joins from Allianz where she is currently MD for retail responsible for providing personal lines insurance to 3.7 million...

In the first of a new column, Steven Luk, executive director of employee benefits at Howden Insurance Brokers in Hong Kong, speaks to Health & Protection about celebrating his dad’s milestone birthday,...

Global Risk Partners (GRP), the owner of Premier Choice, has rebranded to Brown & Brown (Europe) and will adopt Brown & Brown branding going forward.  At the same time, the company has...

Just three in 10 disabled people are satisfied with the quality of the financial advice or information they receive, according to a report from the University of Bristol’s Personal Finance Research Centre...

The development of a hybrid international private medical insurance (IPMI) and local product in Hong Kong has blurred the market for IPMI policies there, according to Aniz Sirajudin regional IPMI leader for...

Zurich Insurance has today launched a critical illness proposition which will allow advisers to create bespoke packages for their clients, in a move that it anticipates will broaden the market.  The insurer...