Friends Life has produced two new guides to help advisers to make the best use of social media.
Groupama Healthcare has announced enhancements to its online administration tool, EasyAdmin.
An insurance fraud police unit is to be set-up, paid for through a police-private sector partnership.
The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) has appointed Graeme Sutton as director of corporate development.
The number of private medical insurance (PMI) policies in the UK (insured and self-insured) fell by 3.8% to 3.96m at the start of 2011, according to Laing and Buisson.
Royal London's protection arms are to begin a summer of IFA marketing campaigns.
HM Treasury (HMT) is suggesting simplified financial products should be defined as sellable without advice.
While over 93% of respondents rated their dental health as important, nearly 1 in 3 have had to cancel or delay dental treatment due to cost.
Employers should make changes to their group income protection policies following the abolition of the default retirement age and increases in state pension ages, Legal & General is to warn.
GPs are set to be balloted on what could become co-ordinated, NHS-wide industrial action against the Government's pension reforms, it has been reported.