The international private medical insurance (IPMI) market will see growth in 2011 but with consolidation and increasing demand for add on products and benefits, ALC Health has predicted.

Medical Care Direct (MCD). has launched ‘Health Link', a healthcare trust fund for businesses and organisations with as few as 100 employees.

Only 16% of employers have failed to at least maintain the value of their employee benefits package through the recession, according to industry body Group Risk Development (GRiD).

The recession has seen spending on private dentistry fall for the first time on record, according to Laing and Buisson's Dentistry UK Market Report 2011, yet dental plans are ever more popular.

The British Insurance Brokers' Association (BIBA) has outlined its priority lobbying issues for the year ahead.

Assurant Intermediary has launched new Accident Sickness and Unemployment (ASU) products it said are an antidote to problems plaguing payment protection insurance (PPI) in recent years.

Legal & General has altered its Income Protection Benefit medical evidence limits, in a bid to improve the application process for customers.

The British Medical Association has called Government plans to give GPs more control of a £5bn education and training budget "troubling".

Private medical insurer Bupa has won the Plain English Campaign's web award for online clarity for its website, bupa.co.uk.

The All Party Parliamentary Group on Insurance and Financial Services (APPG) has given strong backing to the proposals to reform consumer insurance contract law.