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LifeQuote has said it expects to see insurers include health tracking data for protection pricing along the same lines as has been adopted for private medical insurance (PMI) policies.

The UK private medical insurance (PMI) market risks becoming an ‘irrelevance - a Yellow Pages in the age of Google' if the sector could not improve affordability, quality and service, Bupa UK's Alex Perry has warned.

Generational segmentation in employee benefits is too simplistic and not necessarily meeting employers' and employees needs, analysis from Martha How for Aon Employee Benefits has found.

Swiss Re's business unit Admin Re has agreed to acquire closed life insurance fund consolidator Guardian Financial Services from private equity firm Cinven for £1.6bn.

Now Health International has announced the opening of their new operation in Indonesia.

The NHS Health Check programme is spending up to £450,000 per death avoided, which could be better spent, a report from the London School of Economics and University of Liverpool has said.

AIG has launched a new International Private Medical Insurance (IPMI) product, called Expatriate Care, for companies with five employees or more, with previous medical history disregarded.

Zurich has withdrawn its £5.6bn bid for rival firm RSA group after suffering losses in its general insurance business.

Less than half (48%) of homeowners have a policy and four in five renting households do not have life insurance, and research by Aviva has found.

LV= has revealed the details of its business protection range as it launches the key person, shareholder and partnership insurance, as well as loan protection.