Opinion

What do you think about the Competition Commission's recently published investigation into the private healthcare market and what will it mean for insurers?

Certain restrictions on HIV-infected healthcare workers are to be lifted. Richard Walsh reports.

Are private medical schemes paying too much to cover too few and could tiered benefits provide a solution, asks WPA's Ellis Turley.

A new policy to regulate migrant access to the NHS has its stupidities, finds Richard Walsh

How many Critical Illness conditions do you need to have covered?

The Competition Commission is examining the private health sector. Richard Walsh investigates

The industry can now boast a full set of claims statistics from all the major providers, following Friends Life publication of income protection figures. But how much work is there still to be done? And how realistically possible is complete standardisation...

With social media entering the mainstream business arena, Emma Mason gives a few tips for those considering twitter as a business tool.

Friends Life has been in the news recently. First we have its initial refusal, since reversed, to produce stats on IP claims. Then we have the case of Nic Hughes who was declined a claim on a life/CI policy for £100k because of non-disclosure. What's...

COVER magazine is interested in your views on the formation of a trade body to represent the protection sector.