Winning Best Health Insurance Adviser at the Health & Protection Awards proved to be a family affair in more ways than one for Peter Lurie, director at Proactive Medical & Life. Speaking...
Read moreThe Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is writing to 20 of the largest financial advice firms requesting information about their delivery of ongoing services, for which their clients continue to be charged after...
Read moreThe UK Health & Protection Awards 2024 has launched and is now open for adviser entries, including a new category for networks and distributor services. Health & Protection would also like to...
Read moreInsurers deserve credit for creating a product consumers truly value meaning retention rates for private medical insurance (PMI) have held up in spite of cost of living challenges, according to UsayCompare director...
Read moreAlmost two thirds of patients (60%) would be prepared to pay for tests they need. This is according to the Patients Association's Patient Experience of Diagnostics Report which surveyed 1,177 patients and...
Read moreA Northern Ireland-based adviser has laid down the gauntlet to insurance leaders to tackle the "massive" problem emerging from oversaturation of the private healthcare market and lack of hospital capacity across the...
Read moreAviva UK Health managing director Steve Bridger has admitted call waiting times at the insurer remain less than perfect, but noted it had improved and pledged advisers and customers would see near...
Read moreThe largest amount Dentists’ Provident paid out to an individual claimant in the past year was £87,800. This is according to the provider's claims report for 2023 which showed 99% of new...
Read moreThe Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has rejected calls from smaller financial firms for it to intervene in the professional indemnity insurance (PII) market. The regulator dismissed pleas from two of its engagement...
Read moreThe Consumer Duty will not be applied retrospectively to complaints received by it and the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS), the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has emphasised. The regulator repeated its assertion about...
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