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The protection sector is bracing itself for a year in which customers will be less inclined to take out cover when arranging their mortgage as cost of living and inflationary pressures persist....

MetLife paid 19,102 protection claims worth a total of £16.7m last year and has promised a pipeline of new products for 2023. The claims figure is up 15% from 2021 when 16,652...

Firms' target markets are always likely to include vulnerable people so the Consumer Duty requires them to consider whether their products have features that risk harm to all customers - including those...

Parents are more likely to be worried about money and the risk of being unable to work through serious illness or injury than those without dependents, but the vast majority have failed...

Health & Protection has learned of two further departures from William Russell, but the international private medical insurance (IPMI) provider said there has not been a major restructure at the firm. Yesterday...

Health & Protection is launching its first Health Summit for advisers and intermediaries working in the UK private medical and health insurance sector. The Summit is the sector’s leading event where key...

Joanna Streames, managing director at Velvet, tells Health & Protection about how Sir Alan Sugar's boardroom reality show was integral to her entry into the protection sector.   Almost thirteen years ago,...

HCA Healthcare is the latest private healthcare provider to respond to NHS pressures as it is launching an urgent acute admissions service and a private ambulance service across London. The urgent acute...

Prime minister Rishi Sunak has admitted to using private healthcare but refused to be answer how long he had to wait for his last dentist appointment. Sunak's admissions came as pressure increased...

The former chairman of the Personal Finance Society's (PFS) financial planning practitioner panel believes in an ideal world the body would become independent of the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) as it can...