AXA Group's sale of part of its UK Life business to Resolution Group has led to a 30% drop in income for the first half of 2010.

Last month, I reported briefly on the abandoning of targets in the NHS following revision of the Department of Health's Operating Framework.

The NHS will have no choice but to remove some free treatment currently available and to penalise unhealthy behaviour, Friends Provident believes.

Medical second opinion service Best Doctors has been introduced to all new Scottish Widows' Protection for Life policies.

Discovery Holdings of South Africa has released short term plans as it complete the acquisition of Standard Life Healthcare, boosting PruHealth to one of the UK's larger private medical insurance (PMI) providers.

Protection provider Unum is announcing changes to its individual income protection (IP) offering, increasing options.

From the end of September Skandia will no longer sell Critical Illness (CI) policies.

The Government Commission on the funding of care and support long-term should not consider paying for long term (LTC) care solely through general taxation a think tank has found.

Less than half the adult population have life insurance cover, and few have ever switched their life insurance provider, meaning that as a nation we are under-insured and could well be over-paying for inadequate cover, according to new research.

Health and safety improvements at work have reduced mortality risk to acceptable levels for just about all occupations. Calvin Cole highlights the underwriting implications.