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Three adviser groups will be represented at the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) pure protection market study stakeholder workshop. The workshop will bring together adviser, insurer and consumer representatives, primarily through seven trade...

There are encouraging signs that attitudes to income protection (IP) have shifted, with many young people now more open to it than older generations. The protection industry has historically struggled to engage...

Artificial intelligence (AI) and similar technologies are already having a significant effect on healthcare for international patients and will go further, the World of America Convention has heard. Hospitals and insurers are...

MoneySupermarket has launched a ChatGPT app enabling customers to use AI to compare provider offerings across financial services - including health and life insurance. The app, which uses AI to search more...

Myriad reasons are to blame for a year-on-year increase in complaints about income protection (IP) products, advisers have told Health & Protection. These include an over scrutiny of claims from providers, long...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves looks set to collect record Insurance Premium Tax (IPT) receipts for this financial year, latest figures from HM Revenue & Customs show. Consumers collectively paid £7.7bn between April and...

Personalisation of service, underwriting and treatment, including drugs and medication, is critical to the future of international private medical insurance (IPMI) in Latin America, the World of America Convention has heard. Leaders...

Advisers need to focus clients’ minds on life's essentials and to think about how they might cope should the worst happen. This is according to Louise Colley, director of retail protection at...

Globacare has joined the Association of Medical Insurers and Intermediaries (AMII) as an intermediary member. The broker advises on individual, SME and corporate private medical insurance, alongside global health insurance and protection...

Healthy life expectancy for men and women across the UK has fallen to its lowest level on record, according to data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Furthermore those born in...