The number of private medical insurance (PMI) policies in the UK (insured and self-insured) fell by 3.8% to 3.96m at the start of 2011, according to Laing and Buisson.

Royal London's protection arms are to begin a summer of IFA marketing campaigns.

HM Treasury (HMT) is suggesting simplified financial products should be defined as sellable without advice.

While over 93% of respondents rated their dental health as important, nearly 1 in 3 have had to cancel or delay dental treatment due to cost.

Employers should make changes to their group income protection policies following the abolition of the default retirement age and increases in state pension ages, Legal & General is to warn.

GPs are set to be balloted on what could become co-ordinated, NHS-wide industrial action against the Government's pension reforms, it has been reported.

Zurich has announced that it is planning to return to the direct insurance market in the UK later this year in a strategic partnership with its subsidiary Endsleigh.

Now in his eighties, Dr Marius Barnard is still campaigning to improve medical and financial health through insurance. Edward Murray talks to the father of critical illness policies.

Large numbers of care home residents who are presently private payers will be drawn within the ambit of local authority payment, Laing & Buisson has warned.

Stakeholders within the life assurance market need to work together to tackle the ongoing problem of cancellation and persistency rates, a national IFA has urged.