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Technology supplier Avelo has applauded the move to establish a statement of best practice for collecting online signatures by insurance providers.

The FSA has proposed linking the definition of a Holloway product to four key criterion, to pave the way for certain plans gaining exemption from RDR adviser charging rules.

Scottish Provident paid 98% of its life cover claims in 2010.

National Friendly has withdrawn its Five Year Fixed Healthcare and Healthguard products for sale to new customers.

MPs have proposed that GPs should share NHS commissioning duties with other representatives, alongside a number of other significant amendments.

Representatives of the European insurance industry have written to the European Commissioner for the Internal Market and Services, Michel Barnier, to ensure that the "overly conservative and prescriptive" elements it believes are contained in the draft...

Canada Life and AXA PPP have respectively hired Sue Grene and Elliott Hurst to senior positions.

Insurers have agreed to continue not using genetic test results for the vast majority of insurance policies until 2017.

Simplyhealth believes the government has failed to make its case for NHS reforms and that taking stock of public and health professionals' reaction will improve the amendments.

Disabled people receiving the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) will be subject to regular reassessments and the majority of cases will be fixed-term payments.