The newly launched private medical insurance (PMI) scheme launched from the British Insurance Brokers' Association (Biba) is coming under increasing criticism from brokers.
They feel the Association has departed from its ethos of supporting smaller brokers and also questioned whether the deal was legitimate under FSA rules. However Biba has refuted this and maintained that the policy was set up to support its membership. Members are still unhappy despite, as COVER reported, the contract being temporarily withdrawn to remove a clause that transferred all existing PMI business of those who joined the scheme to its partner, Jelf. Trevor Hunter, director of Halcyon healthcare and a Biba member, told COVER he felt with this scheme the Association was negle...
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