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The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has downgraded its rating for Doctor Care Anywhere, which provides services for Axa Health’s private medical insurance (PMI) customers, to requires improvement. The regulator downgraded Doctor Care...

Vicky Churcher is to join the Income Protection Task Force (IPTF) as co-chairwoman from the start of the year. The former intermediary director of AIG Life and current non-executive director at Cirencester...

The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) has launched an influencer campaign to address the insurance industry’s talent gap, and common misconceptions around insurance careers.  The move, led by the CII’s New Generation group,...

A new mandatory healthcare initiative is set to be introduced in Bahrain later this quarter, but is unlikely to have any direct impact on the international private medical insurance (IPMI) market there.  Bahrain...

EMed Healthcare UK has acquired Babylon Healthcare Services and certain assets belonging to Babylon Group Holdings and Babylon Partners. EMed Healthcare UK will continue to provide Babylon’s digital-first 24/7 primary care and...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)has reported a surge in complaints across the health and protection insurance sectors over the first six months of the financial year. Most notably, the FCA received 8,527...

AIG Life has appointed Setul Mehta as head of intermediary distribution. Joining in November, Mehta (pictured) will report to Nick Austin, managing director of individual protection at AIG Life. Mehta was most...

Premier Choice Healthcare (PCH) is buying advice firm Healthcover as it targets a greater presence and opportunity in the international private medical insurance (PMI) market. PCH said it has completed the acquisition...

Amelie Dionne-Charest, co-founder and managing director of Alea Insurance, a Hong Kong-based broker, speaks to Health & Protection about how she started her company from ground zero in a foreign city, never being afraid to ask...

Customers will only benefit when extending matching adjustments (MA) to allow in-payment income protection (IP) liabilities under new Solvency UK rules is made accessible to smaller insurers, "spurring price competition rather than...