Almost half (47%) of all claims for multiple sclerosis (MS) by Legal & General (L&G) policyholders were made by people aged between 18 and 40 in 2014, the insurer has revealed.

Gavin Shay, head of partnership development at AXA PPP healthcare, looks at how advisers feel about the current state of the PMI market.

Claire Ginnelly has been appointed managing director of intermediary Premier Choice Group (PCG).

Social care budget reductions could lead to rising levels of unmet need a white paper from the International Longevity Centre-UK's Centre for Later Life funding has warned.

AXA PPP's Pan Africa Pan for individuals and SMEs is now available throughout Africa, having initially been introduced in Kenya and Tanzania.

The private health sector is "a long way from where we should be" in terms of technology Peter Connor, managing director of Healthcode warned the Private Healthcare Summit.

The global insurance industry grew in 2014 with life premiums seeing growth of 4.3% after a decline of 1.8% in 2013, Swiss Re's sigma study of 2014 has found.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has called on firms, consumer groups and stakeholders to give consumers information in smarter and more effective ways.

Network Openwork is to divide its distribution business into three specialist distribution units for wealth, mortgages and protection.

Double-digit growth in the self pay healthcare sector is coming at the expense of private medical insurance, a report has found.