PMI & Healthcare

Simplyhealth appointed Sneh Khemka as CEO in March. In his first interview he speaks to Health & Protection about transforming the insurer, digital healthcare product evolution, why being kind matters and his...

National regulations are making it harder for smaller firms to expand their business into more international private medical insurance (IPMI) markets. In addressing delegates at the Health Compass Transforming the Transaction in...

Advisers need to embrace technology or face dying out, according to Lourdes Peters, president and CEO of independent benefit advisory insurance brokers World of America. According to Peters, who was addressing delegates...

LV= has revealed it paid more than £15.6m in cancer-related claims during the first five months of the year but is expecting that to rise sharply during the second half of 2021....

Pandemic-fuelled trauma is leading to a dramatic decline in employee concentration levels across the US, according to data from Total Brain, a mental health and brain performance self-monitoring and self-care platform. The...

The protection sector needs to do more to promote the industry as a rewarding career destination to the next generation of advisers as early as possible. This is according to Naomi Greatorex,...

A shareholder rebellion could jeopardise Australian healthcare firm Ramsay Healthcare's £1bn takeover of private healthcare provider Spire. The deal, agreed by both boards late last month, would create a combined operator of...

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has rated a Chelmsford alcohol and drug addiction service inadequate and placed it in special measures, after investigators found shortfalls in measures to ensure patient safety due...

Bupa is launching a guided care add-on option to its consumer Bupa By You and Bupa Fundamental products offering access to the insurer’s open referral network of specialists. Once customers have an...

Health technology products provided by insurers need to focus on nutrition as well as fitness, according to Tim Smith, head of protection at Hannover Re. Smith was responding to a question raised...