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Bupa Health Clinics is opening five new health centres within private medical and dental provider MyHealthcare sites. The centres, based in Balham, Swiss Cottage and Chiswick in London, Edgbaston in Birmingham and...

Royal London paid 99% of all protection claims in 2023, paying out over 77,000 protection claims, totalling a record total of £731m, representing £100m more than 2022. This is according to the...

Fluent Money has appointed Martin Baker as director of mortgages and protection in a newly created role. Joining the business on 8 July, Baker joins the financial solutions provider having held roles...

Premier Choice Healthcare (PCH) has completed its third acquisition in three months. In March, the firm acquired 100% of the share capital of Midlands-based intermediary Central Healthcare Ltd.  This was followed in...

More than 40,000 fewer protection policies were sold in Q1 2024 than in the corresponding quarter of 2023, according to Gen Re. The reinsurer’s Protection Pulse update for the first quarter of...

While artificial intelligence (AI) is being put to use in fielding out of hours calls and performing back office operations, international private medical insurance advisers need to be mindful of customers who...

Texas-based healthcare provider WebTPA has announced that a data security incident has impacted its network and some 2.4 million customers.  WebTPA is a third-party administrator with more than 30 years of experience...

The deadline is arriving for advisers to enter The UK Health & Protection Awards 2024. Entries can be submitted on the Awards website and this year includes a new category for networks...

Most of the young adults responding to a survey by life insurer Beagle Street reported that they do not have life cover. The survey of 2,000 adults aged between 18 and 40...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has undertaken an in-depth review of the life insurance market's governance arrangements and pure protection product fair value. The regulator said it had conducted the review over...