PMI & Healthcare

Health and protection advisers want unconscious bias training to avoid the pitfalls of erroneously held preconceptions about their clients. The findings come from in-depth interviews with 100 advisers conducted by BVA BDRC...

Protection advice firm LifeSearch has joined 26 financial services firms in signing up to a new Association of British Insurers’ (ABI) charter aimed at increasing flexible working to improve diversity and equality...

Advisers and brokers still have time to submit their entries for the UK Health & Protection Awards. The awards feature the best of the advisers, brokers, insurers and providers operating in the...

Safeguarding basic benefits such as medical insurance and pensions has created a better sense of security among Ikea's workers in the pandemic. This is according to Ulrika Biesèrt, global people and culture...

Global financial assistance product provider CPP Group has appointed Carl Carter as CEO of its UK business. Carter (pictured) succeeds retiring UK MD Michael Whitfield who will remain with CPP Group, taking...

Private healthcare should be seen as an ally rather than competition to the NHS, according to Stuart Scullion, the outgoing executive chairman of the Association of Medical Insurers and Intermediaries (AMII). Scullion...

LV= is updating its underwriting approach so people with chronic medical conditions including severe respiratory conditions, heart and lung diseases, and cancer can apply more easily. As a result of the lowered...

Financial services firm Sun Life Financial has agreed to acquire US medical intelligence and healthcare navigation provider Pinnacle Care International for $85m (£61m). Maryland-based PinnacleCare has more than 170 employees and 20...

The 2021 version of the PMI Handbook, the 254-page reference tool for information on the different PMI plans available in the UK market, has now launched. The PMI Handbook offers a comprehensive...

Global health service company Cigna Europe is joining the the Association of Medical Insurers and Intermediaries Transfer of Personal Data Initiative, an agreement to adopt the electronic transfer of underwriting direct between...