Protection

Local authorities may take an "aggressive stance" against schemes designed to help individuals avoid long term care (LTC) fees, an expert has warned.

The doctors' regulator spends more than a quarter of a million pounds a year on private medical insurance (PMI), it has been revealed.

Insurance brokers and life companies will attempt to cross-sell to existing customers in order to compensate for "downbeat" market conditions in 2012, research suggests.

According to Laing & Buisson efforts to divert demand away from care homes appear to be running out of steam as the proportion of private payers rises.

The ten worst offending payment protection insurance (PPI) mis-selling firms could face costs of over £55m to enable regulators to deal with the problem.

Employees are more likely to have been absent from work due to personal reasons than because of sickness, new research has revealed.

Axa will quit the Irish Insurance Federation (IIF) after claiming it can no longer afford the membership cost due to the economic climate.

IFAs are increasingly positive about the protection market's prospects for 2012, according to a new survey.

Stress and mental health have taken a back seat as UK bosses worry most about employee's work/life balance Group Risk Development (GRiD) has said.

An industry expert has called for greater engagement by the protection industry to prevent regulation of payment protection insurance (PPI) hurting the protection market.