The private medical insurance (PMI) market's two biggest players have seen a rise in the number of complaints escalated to the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS).
Any move abroad by Prudential is "unlikely" to affect either PruProtect or PruHealth, COVER understands.
Avelo has launched a private medical insurance (PMI) service for advisers to compare health insurance contracts from eleven providers.
Protection is seen as a key growth area by IFAs with almost two thirds optimistic about increasing business in the sector this year.
Bereavement benefits need to be altered to better support those who have suffered the death of a loved one, government research has found.
When addressing a client's protection needs, most products deal in the term space. But with people potentially outliving these contracts, Owain Thomas looks to whole of life for rejuvenation.
PruProtect has announced a significant rise in new business premiums and the number of lives it now covers.
Doctors have hit back at proposals that would force them to encourage patients to stay in or go back to work as soon as possible.
The strain of the payment protection insurance (PPI) mis-selling scandal shows no sign of slowing as figures from the FSA show redress payments surged to a new monthly high in December.
Lifesearch has applauded Legal & General's use of subject access requests (SARs) to obtain extra medical data and said it is seeing positive results for clients.