Health insurers have applauded the Office of Fair Trading's (OFT) decision to refer the operation of the private healthcare market to the Competition Commission (CC).
The Office of Fair Trading has referred the private healthcare market to the Competition Commission (CC) and revealed a move by the FSA, ABI and health insurers to better inform customers.
At least 62 debt management advice firms have had their licences cancelled in the past year after an Office of Fair Trading (OFT) review into the industry.
Estate agents and property developers who handle sales of property and land in the UK are to be issued with draft guidance on how to comply with the law.
Health insurers and brokers have broadly supported the Office of Fair Trading's (OFT) view that the private healthcare market is ‘not working well for customers'.
The private healthcare market ‘may not be working well for consumers', the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has said.
Only one complaint about the structure of private medical insurance (PMI) contracts has been forwarded to the FSA by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), COVER has learned.
Consumer groups will have the power to insist regulators investigate complaints of mass mis-selling of financial products when the Financial Conduct Authority takes over in 2013, Mark Hoban, financial secretary, will announce today.
The reform of the NHS is dominating many discussions in private healthcare circles, but Owain Thomas unearths another government initiative that could have a greater impact
Loan firms which demand upfront fees for loans they have no intention of making will be shut down by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT).