The COVER Review: Health updates, protection sales and claims

Week commencing 2 June 2025

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The COVER Review sees COVER's editorial team discuss updates around health, protection sales and the claims process.

COVER editor, Cameron Roberts, and senior reporter, Jaskeet Briah, discuss the must-read stories of the week commencing 2 June 2025. The top stories this week are: 148.9m working days lost to sickness in 2024 2024 record year for private healthcare: PHIN Guardian paid out £21.3m in 2024 Positive Q1 for protection: iPipeline The impact of delaying a claim

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