Bupa has delivered a strong response to news that concerns over health insurers' doctor payment schedules are to be reported to the FSA.
Concerns over the conduct of health insurers are to be reported to the FSA by Lord Sassoon, the Commercial Secretary to the Treasury.
The House of Lords has held a debate on the impact that private medical insurers' reimbursement policies have on cancer patients.
The level of compensation due to 10,000 Equitable Life customers who bought with-profits annuities before 1992 would be "impossible to calculate", Tory MP Jonathon Evans says.
A dispute between medical consultants and Private Medical Insurers has escalated in the House of Lords.
Commercial secretary Lord Sassoon has been told to take steps to improve consumer access to the open market option (OMO) and intervene on poor annuity rates.
Peter Barnett, a policy analyst in the House of Lords, gives his initial view of the Spending Review and its impact on financial services.
The government spending review will have a direct effect on financial services
Lord Ashcroft transferred his £17m stake of his main UK company Impellam Group to a trust for his children on 5 April this year to avoid new tax rules.
The Government has announced a policy of cutting across all departments. Peter Barnett assesses what this regime of a thousand cuts means for the protection and health intermediary