PMI/Private Medical Insurance

Taking on International PMI business can stave off competition from other market sectors and be a profitable addition to a business' line up, says Andrew Apps

Health Assured has unveiled a new employer centred private medical insurance (PMI) policy.

In response to customer feedback, Aviva has now added two new reduced out-patient benefit options and a choice of higher excess options, to its Healthier Solutions individual health insurance product.

Oval Healthcare is now including Best Doctors in its proposition.

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

Consumers and businesses are looking ahead to 2010 with a degree of optimism, and this positive thinking is also alive and well within the broker profession.

The current subject on brokers' lips is PMI claims transparency, yet this was banned from discussion at a recent AMII meeting. In the absence of proper debate, Insurance Age's Liz McMahon brings viewpoints together

Gordon, 58, wishes to take out a private medical insurance (PMI) policy. He is in generally good health but works in an extremely stressful position as a highly paid civil servant. However, due to the recession, he will probably find himself retiring...

Ruth, 26, is a magazine designer living in London. Although in good health, she suffered from ME for two years in her teens, and contracted malaria while on a gap trip around the world. While she is generally in good health, her ME flared up slightly...