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The Exeter reported a loss of £4.26m for 2025, an improvement on the £8.51m deficit it posted in 2024, as claims and adviser commission rose across its health and protection products. However,...

Eleven members of the Association of Financial Mutuals (AFM) approved more than 92% of new income protection (IP) claims made in 2025. Furthermore, AFM members increased IP sales by around 7%, selling...

Spire Healthcare has for a second time extended the deadline for Toscafund Asset Management to make a formal offer for the private hospital operator. Toscafund now has until July 9 to make...

Global mobility remains essential for growth, but the environments employees operate in are becoming more complex. Geopolitical tensions, climate disruption, healthcare access challenges and rising mental health pressures are reshaping how organisations...

Two major international private medical insurance (IPMI) providers have at least one million members, Health & Protection’s latest IPMI Report has found. Data published from two of the largest IPMI providers for...

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has rejected the proposal of having minimum standards or cover on products offered through price comparison websites. The option was proposed by Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted...

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) is preparing a “multimedia multi-year” campaign to educate consumers about key terms and elements of insurance products. The trade body revealed the plans at a House...

The case for preventative healthcare has never been stronger to address some of the huge challenges facing the medical system, the Association of Medical Insurers and Intermediaries (AMII) health and wellbeing summit...

Advice firm ExpatInsure is opening a new office in Larnaca, Cyprus. The move enables it to establish a base in the EU and a platform from which to expand its international health...

Shepherds Friendly has appointed Laura Gauden as head of sales with a brief to grow the mutual society’s intermediary partnerships. Gauden (pictured) brings more than 20 years of mortgage and insurance intermediary...