Protection

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.

Experts are bracing themselves for a "firesale" of protection products next year ahead of a rule change which could see premiums soar by 10%.

Professional indemnity (PI) insurance premiums are set to soar, due to the "unregulated" status of some of the industry and the relative ease with which a brokerage can be established, said Tenet Group.

The UK market will continue to shift towards protection says Aviva's Toby Strauss, after the insurer reported its third consecutive quarter of life sales growth.

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.

Aviva has signed a five year deal to provide protection products for Santander from June 2011.

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

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.