PMI

Underwriting

Risk Clinic: Newly redundant single parents

My client is just starting out in freelance consultancy after being made redundant. He is a single parent with a 14-year-old daughter and previously had all major protections and private medical insurance (PMI) through work. I will cover him for the usual...

clock 07 November 2011 • 4 min read

International PMI

Now Health introduces currency flexibility

Now Health International has introduced a flexible currency facility for customers in around 200 countries.

clock 07 November 2011 • 1 min read

International PMI

Merger discussions in 'crowded' IPMI market - Now Health

The international private medical insurance (IPMI) market could be subject of a series of mergers and acquisitions between providers, according to one insurer in the sector.

clock 03 November 2011 • 1 min read

PMI

Bupa pressurises private hospital sector

Bupa is to cut ties to individual hospitals within hospital groups, in an attack on the sector's business model.

clock 02 November 2011 • 2 min read

PMI

MPs demand public heath body be politically independent

MPs have demanded that the new public health body for England must be independent of government while saying nudges to encourage better personal health will not work.

clock 02 November 2011 • 2 min read

PMI

Groupama policies will continue to release claims data

Groupama Healthcare has said it will continue to release claims data for small group scheme policies after its merger with Simplyhealth.

clock 01 November 2011 • 1 min read

Adviser / Broking

Aviva launches investigation into 'cross-selling' error

Aviva has apologised for "cross-selling" discounted private medical insurance (PMI) to advisers' clients, in what the insurer has said was a mistake.

clock 01 November 2011 • 1 min read

PMI

NHS commissioning chief is private patient

It appears the Chair of the NHS Commissioning Board pays for private care after he admitted to not using the NHS.

clock 31 October 2011 • 2 min read

Individual PMI

Aviva extends cancer cover to include non-NHS drugs

Aviva has overhauled its cancer coverage for both individual and group private medical insurance (PMI) schemes.

clock 31 October 2011 • 2 min read

International PMI

Data sharing scheme tackles PMI fraud

The Association of International Medical Insurance Providers (AIMIP) has agreed a deal to help cut fraud throughout the private medical insurance (PMI) sector.

clock 27 October 2011 • 2 min read