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Reports on UK resilience have offered a starkly sobering reminder of the scale of the challenge ahead for the protection market, the cost of failure, and the urgent need for the industry...

More than 40 hospitals have been identified by the competition regulator as breaching requirements to provide information on their private health treatments. Each member of the cohort has been given an action...

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network has revealed "strong" growth across private medical insurance (PMI) in a year in which it increased its number of both appointed representatives and advisers. The network...

IPipeline has revealed it experienced its highest week for new income protection applications in a decade for the week beginning 11 March. With 3,280 applications submitted through its portals, the financial services...

Mortgage and protection adviser and Apprentice star Raj Chohan has set her sights on becoming a lender for bridging finance. Chohan (pictured) who was fired in the latest instalment of The Apprentice...

Self-employed people lack the kind of income protection offered by SSP and government should work to create a contributory sick pay scheme for that market, according to The Work and Pensions Committee’s...

Voting for the Health & Protection International PMI Provider Service Ratings 2024 will close next week and we want to hear from intermediaries around the world. You can vote to recognise those...

Aviva’s £460m takeover of AIG Life UK has been cleared by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). The deal that would see Aviva purchase the AIG Life UK business from AIG subsidiary...

Spectrum.Life has agreed a strategic partnership with Northern Ireland primary health and urgent care GP provider Duality Healthcare. From April 2024, Duality Healthcare memberships, which start at £6.99 per month, will automatically...

Unum UK paid more than £471m in claims in 2023 - including £229m for income protection, £160m for life insurance and £43m for critical illness cover. This was up from £395m in claims...