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Shortlists for the UK Health & Protection Awards 2024 provider categories have been revealed after advisers voted to support their favoured providers. The shortlists cover 13 categories spanning the breadth of the...

This Mental Health Awareness Week, Health & Protection features Florence Streames, finance assistant at Velvet Mortgage and Insure Services, who speaks about building a career in protection while coping with severe obsessive...

Whether international private medical insurance (IPMI) advisers should move to a fee only model was one of the questions raised at Health & Protection's third annual IPMI Summit last week. A new...

Big insurance brands in the international private medical insurance (IPMI) space have an easier time getting new customers than newer entrants, thanks to the power of their brand, according to Matt Howells,...

Health & Protection’s third annual IPMI Summit took place this week at Sopwell House in St Albans, Hertfordshire The flagship two-day invitation-only event saw some 50 industry leaders from major broker and...

The insurance sector needs to do more to recognise the harmful effects of vaping in the underwriting processes. This is according to Nicola Draper, research consultant at Crystalise, who addressed delegates on...

There is clearly a disconnect between organisations and leadership and what workers want, but the importance of international private medical insurance (IPMI) is increasing as public infrastructure continues to collapse.  That is...

Legal & General has broadened its critical illness (CI) cover definitions and increased the maximum age a child can be covered under its CI Extra plan. The insurer said the changes to...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has reported a 13% increase in income protection complaints year-on-year, according to its complaints data. But the data also pointed to a 6% increase in PMI complaints...

The Financial Conduct Authority expects firms to address key fair value challenges connected to goneaway customers, data gaps, vested rights and outcomes ahead of its looming Consumer Duty deadline for closed books....