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Health Insurers were the subject of just 122 complaints to the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) in the first six months of this year.

As the government renewed its attempt to push forward the Health and Social Care Bill it has published a list of ten myths which it claims are being used to de-rail its progress.

The Health and Social Care Bill has returned to Parliament to discuss Government plans over the NHS.

The CML, Bright Grey and London & Country offer their views

Middle aged Britons are the unhealthiest in the world, according to new research.

PruProtect has called for protection insurance to be made compulsory and said it is already seeing signs of advisers switching to protection to anticipate the Retail Distribution Review (RDR).

LV= has added its family income benefit (FIB) plan and combined life and critical illness quotation with different sums assured to its True Potential offering.

Government health reforms still pose an "unacceptably high risk to the NHS" and should be scrapped, according to the British Medical Association (BMA).

A Swiss Re report examining the accuracy of mortality projection models includes several interesting facts about life expectancy. Here are a few of our favourties from that report (plus a few others from elsewhere).

Mortality projection models are in need of a radical overhaul to ease insurers' funding problems and give them confidence when pricing future retirement income solutions, an influential new report argues.