Bupa

Bupa is offering group critical illness (CI) claimants and their families access to Best Doctors with no increase in premiums.

Bupa has unveiled its enhanced dental plan that will be available from April.

Bupa has launched an enhanced online intermediary trading system for its individual protection products.

A new sales and support centre has been opened by Bupa in southern Spain.

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Bupa Individual Protection has added more than 130 own occupation definitions to its individual income protection proposition including dentists, surgeons and college lecturers.

Bupa has revealed critical illness non-disclosure resulted in only 2% of payout refusals between January and September 2009.

Bupa is set to provide early intervention and return-to-work support on all its group income protection (GIP) schemes with no increase in premiums.

Bupa has revealed that 2% of critical illness claims were declined due to non-disclosure between January and September 2009, compared to 8.6% in the same period in 2008.

Medicines that target specific nerve cells in the brain could reverse poor mental function in people with Down's syndrome, according to new research, Bupa has said.