BIBA healthcare focus group co-founder resigns

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One of the founders of the British Insurance Brokers' Association (BIBA) healthcare focus group has resigned claiming the organisation does not cater for smaller brokers.

The organisation has recently been unsettled by problems with its private medical insurance (PMI) scheme and several other high profile departures. Despite the upheaval, BIBA insisted it was business as usual for the focus group and denied the body favoured larger intermediary organisations. Four years ago Susie Colley, managing director of West Country Healthcare, said four years ago she approached BIBA along with Paul Walker of Essential Health to create the focus group. However, Colley told COVER she was not happy with the current direction of the group and felt former head of t...

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