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Aviva has has been paying its longest income protection (IP) claim for more than 35 years. The insurer published the detail as part of its 2022 individual protection claims data which showed...

The Exeter saw usage of its free member health and wellbeing app grow by 10% in 2022. The protection and health insurer noted remote GP appointments remained the most popular service, accounting...

The Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN) believes insurers are not doing enough to promote its data on healthcare quality from practitioners and hospitals to patients. The body also urged advisers to direct...

Lee Lovett is retiring as managing director (MD) of group protection at AIG Life with Donald MacLean appointed as his successor. Lovett has spent more than 40 years in the financial services...

Record NHS wait times have meant clients are now more aware of the importance of their own health and expect to pay more for treatment in future as well. This is according...

Sam Hudson has been appointed managing director of RedArc, with Christine Husbands (pictured) becoming commercial director. Hudson assumes his new role alongside his existing position as managing director of Assured Futures, which...

Health and protection insurance comparison service Usay Compare has partnered with Contact State to improve its marketing activity and validate leads. Usay said the platform had been brought on board to help...

Health & Protection's inaugural Health Summit took place last week at Tylney Hall in Hampshire. The exclusive two-day event saw advisers and intermediaries working in the private medical insurance (PMI) and healthcare...

Demand for private healthcare diagnostics will only increase so the onus is on providers to decide whether to increase capacity in this area, according to Fiona Booth, head of external affairs and...

Using the support of colleagues across an organisation and emphasising the repercussions of failing to change can be key to changing archaic boardroom cultures, Health & Protection's Health Summit has heard. Marcia...