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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is prepared to be much more aggressive in taking legal action against firms and individuals it believes are acting improperly in the financial services sector. The regulator...

Mayo Clinic Healthcare, the London facility of healthcare provider Mayo Clinic, has agreed a two-year contract with Bupa to deliver care for the health insurer’s UK customers. This includes consultations, diagnostics, endoscopy,...

Advisers should not assume their client cannot access income protection (IP) cover if they have pre-existing medical conditions, AIG Life has said. Helen Croft, head of underwriting strategy at AIG Life explained...

Spire Healthcare has agreed a £15.7m deal to buy the Claremont Private Hospital in Sheffield from Aspen Healthcare as it plots more purchases and expansion. The transaction will see Spire take Aspen’s...

The Huntercombe Hospital Maidenhead has brought in a new leadership team to roll out an urgent action plan following a Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection this summer. The site is a specialist...

Added services are a key determining factor to people favouring one protection policy over another, according to research from Hymans Robertson. And while more than a third of people (39%) were more...

MetLife has paid £1m in child claims as of 20 September, according to data released by the insurer. The insurer's internal data also found that as of June 2021, 52% of its...

Referring clients to protection specialists can be a win-win for wealth and protection advisers, emphasises Middleton Wealth Management adviser Daniel Weaver. Weaver acknowledged that some wealth advisers resisted referring business because they...

The UK government has admitted it is not prepared to pay more than £850 to analyse contracts worth £14.7bn for personal protective equipment (PPE) bought during the Covid-19 pandemic. The government has...

Income protection (IP) can really come into its own when advising high net worth individuals who believe their business is their pension. This is according to Victor Sacks, owner and director at...