This years Protection Review conference hit three main points. Paul Robertson discusses them with Peter Le Beau.

Groupama Group says the Private Medical Insurance (PMI) market is seeing further evidence of some rate strengthening in the Small to Medium Enterprise (SME) area where the company is active.

Bright Grey says it paid 95% of critical illness (CI) claims in the first six months of the year, its strongest claims paid figures to date.

AXA Group's sale of part of its UK Life business to Resolution Group has led to a 30% drop in income for the first half of 2010.

Incredibly common, yet little understood by the public, Fergus Bescoby investigates the insurance angle.

Last month, I reported briefly on the abandoning of targets in the NHS following revision of the Department of Health's Operating Framework.

The NHS will have no choice but to remove some free treatment currently available and to penalise unhealthy behaviour, Friends Provident believes.

Medical second opinion service Best Doctors has been introduced to all new Scottish Widows' Protection for Life policies.

Discovery Holdings of South Africa has released short term plans as it complete the acquisition of Standard Life Healthcare, boosting PruHealth to one of the UK's larger private medical insurance (PMI) providers.

Protection provider Unum is announcing changes to its individual income protection (IP) offering, increasing options.