Claims data review proposed

The British Insurance Brokers' Association (Biba) has announced it is to push for a review and eventual cessation of limited availability of authenticated claims data in the health insurance sector - a situation, it says, is a "restricted practice which limits consumer choice". Peter Staddon, head of technical services at the body, said the organisation had valid concerns over how insurers could assess risk when they were prohibited from seeing a client's claims data. He said: "Biba's Healthcare Focus Group has met with a number of insurers to discuss the matter further, including the m...