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Royal London has made changes to its critical illness cover (CIC) in a bid to pay more protection claims. Under the changes the mutual insurer has added two new definitions that pay...

Employers are increasingly looking for their private medical insurance (PMI) scheme to cover long term chronic conditions of employees, two insurers have agreed. Bupa and WPA acknowledged they were increasingly hearing from...

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) is adding the full LV= flexible protection plan range of products and options to its protection panel. LV='s income protection plans have been available to MAB advisers since...

Munich Re has announced it will not renew existing contracts in Russia and Belarus and has suspended all new business. The group added it will do the same with its investments in...

OneAmerica has appointed Joe Ingream as senior vice president to lead its employee benefits business. Primarily focusing on group life and disability coverage for working Americans, Ingream will also be responsible for...

PG Mutual has partnered with Blue Light Card to offer healthcare workers and their families a 20% discount off their first two years’ premiums for its Income Protection Plus insurance. The product...

The NHS backlog is continuing to drive people towards private healthcare and hospitals are confident about growing volumes of work from insurers, according to research from private hospitals. A study by the...

Female advisers' place greater emphasis on successful relationship building with client families than their male counterparts, according to research from the Embark Group. The group's latest Investor Confidence Barometer survey of 251...

Insurers are not paying private consultants enough and this is contributing to a potential capacity crunch as they leave the market, WPA has said. The insurer emphasised that hospital capacity was generally...

Almost four in 10 employers have increased virtual healthcare support during the pandemic, according to research fromgroup risk industry body Grid. The research found 38% of businesses had increased support that can...