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Foresters Life is working on cutting costs in its outsourced underwriting process.

More consumers will buy protection direct from online providers in response to the Retail Distribution Review (RDR), an online insurance group has predicted.

Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) chief executive Natalie Ceeney has praised independent financial advisers for their complaints handling, saying they do a better job than larger businesses such as banks.

The British Insurance Brokers' Association (Biba) has visited the Prime Minister's office to raise a number of key broker issues.

Aviva is "nervous" at the idea that age could be removed from protection pricing with the incoming Equal Treatment Directive.

A care home group is suing Barclays for £37m over the rigging of LIBOR in a landmark case which could force the bank to disclose the names of managers involved in the scandal.

The Department of Health has failed to reassure that financial problems will not damage the quality of healthcare in a Public Accounts Committee report published yesterday.

Senior figures from the PMI industry will debate healthcare insurance at the Autumn Conference of the Association of Medical Insurance Intermediaries (AMII).

Leading politicians have been silent about mental health for far too long, Labour leader Ed Miliband said today.

Insurers will be forced to get tech savvy next year as the on-going economic pressure takes its toll, Ovum has said.