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The market for international private medical insurance (IPMI) for recently unstable countries in Africa and the Middle East is growing.

The top five intermediary platforms will likely show their hand on protection propositions in the second half of the year, a technology and consultancy firm to the major intermediary platforms has reported.

The ageing workforce is creating absence management issues for employers unaware of an exemption which can keep overall protection costs down, Group Risk Development (GRiD) has found.

The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) is currently upholding about 47% of all complaints, according to the FOS' own figures.

Incoming Bank of England (BoE) governor Mark Carney intends to place economic growth at the top of his priority list when he takes on his new role.

Symponia fears many people could unwittingly be paying for care fees twice over as a ‘significant' number of insurance policies remain unclaimed on.

Corporate clients with significant staff numbers to auto-enrol are struggling to pin down budgets for other employee benefits, an adviser has said.

The last week of 2012 saw a dramatic spike in grants given out by Macmillan Cancer Support for cancer patients struggling to cope.

Changes to the work capability assessment which aim to improve the way it assesses the effect of cancer treatment are being introduced today, meaning many people will no longer be forced to work or look for work while dealing with the effects of the disease....

Sorry to start the new year of on a cynical note but... Just before Christmas the NHS Commissioning Board (the central body which sets standards for the NHS) published a series of documents.