Insurer

Swiss Re has reported a dramatic decrease in its life and health insurance business, its nine month figures for 2014 have revealed.

Ageas Protect has posted a profit of £1.6m this year and a significant increase in premiums, Ageas UK's third quarter results for 2014 have revealed.

The Legal Ombudsman will from January 2015 deal with complaints about claims management companies (CMCs).

Protection was Aviva's ‘largest product contributor' making up 36% of the insurer's first nine months' new business value, interim results have shown.

The Approved Persons Regime (APR) has been described as not fit for purpose in a Treasury Committee report.

LV='s head of protection Mark Jones has left the insurer.

Less than a third of people trust insurance providers with numbers proving hard to improve.

The Skandia brand has formally disappeared from the UK, all the company's operations are now part of the Old Mutual Wealth brand.

Towers Watson has assessed insurer's investment implications in case of a Scottish of ‘Yes' vote.

Laws governing insurance contracts are to be updated by the government to provide more modern rules and to bring Britain in line with other countries.