PMI & Healthcare

Advisers, insurers and other financial services firms will be refunded £175 if a complaint taken to the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) is not won by the claims management company (CMC) submitting it....

The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) is holding its fees for advisers and intermediaries at the same level for the next year despite a near-100,000 surge in cases this year. Complaint cases submitted...

Broadway Insurance has appointed Melissa Jayne Golder as senior health and wellbeing consultant. Golder's appointment reunites her with Broadway director of healthcare, Emma Wood, who she previously worked with at Reich Healthcare....

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has identified fair value outcomes, including the impending pure protection market review, and claims handling within life insurance as part of its ongoing priorities for the Consumer...

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co is buying fellow multinational intermediary AssuredPartners for $13.45bn, approximately £10.56bn, from private equity firm GTCR. Gallagher said it expected to save around $160m through synergies between the...

Doctor Care Anywhere Group has appointed Laura O’Riordan as CEO. Her latest role was as president at EMed Healthcare UK which was previously known as Babylon Health. But she has also held...

The majority of UK employees would swap small monthly treats for access to better health and wellbeing benefits, according to research from Unum UK. The provider's research of 500 employees across UK...

April Group has opened a new office in Shanghai, China to offer its international private medical insurance (IPMI) plans. The firm's IPMI arm April International will roll out its My Health product...

More than three-quarters (77%) of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) intend to revamp their employee benefits packages, according to Employee Benefit Trends in UK SMEs, a report from Howden Employee Benefits with...

While Parliament may have been primarily focused on the fallout from the first Labour Budget in 14 years, the health insurance advisers gathered at the House of Lords were focused on the...