The Exeter has added its Real Life product to iPipeline’s newly launched Advanced Underwriting adviser platform. Real Life is a life insurance product designed to provide coverage both for standard applicants and individuals who may struggle to obtain traditional life insurance due to serious or multiple health conditions. Initially launched in 2018, Real Life also
Trust in private medical insurance (PMI) has bounced back in Fairer Finance’s latest customer experience ratings, rebounding strongly after a brief decline earlier this year. The Autumn 2025 Trust in Private Medical Insurance Index reveals that trust has increased by 0.71 percentage points since Spring 2025 to reach 58.55%, returning to levels last seen at
Estate planner Octopus Legacy, part of the Octopus Group, has developed a life insurance offering with Shepherds Friendly that aims to address the widespread lack of estate planning among the British public. The offering targets the confusion that prevents many families from arranging life and critical illness cover by providing an accessible application process. Customers
Founded in 1982, Alan Boswell Group has grown from a single office in Wroxham into one of East Anglia’s leading independent insurance brokers. Today, it operates seven offices across the region and Lincolnshire, employing more than 450 staff. It was named Large Business of the Year, sponsored by Ensors, part of Azets, at a ceremony
The Crown Prosecution Service has dropped charges against two activists who scaled the historic insurance marketplace the Royal Exchange. Police arrested the pair on suspicion of criminal damage after they climbed a 10 metre column and dropped a banner calling to boycott “the insurers of death”. Boycott Bloody Insurance Kelly’s solicitors led the successful defence
Anyone with a National Insurance number has been issued an important warning from HMRC. The Labour Party government tax arm has urged people to “only share it when you need to” in a recent update. Taking to X, HMRC typed: “Download the HMRC app to view your National Insurance number. Remember, only share it when
There has been a surge in health insurance complaints. As a percentage of total complaints received, it continues to be the dominant category, accounting for about 80% of all grievances at the Mumbai Ombudsman office. In 2020-21, we received 3,721 health insurance complaints. This rose to 4,890 in 2021-22, 6,390 in 2022-23 and 7,789 in
Ongoing recapitalisation in the insurance sector has been identified as a major driver of the real growth recorded in the sector in the third quarter of the year. According to the latest Gross Domestic Product data from the National Bureau of Statistics, the insurance subsector of the financial services industry recorded real GDP growth of
Kin, the direct-to-consumer digital home insurance and finance provider, today announces operating results for its third quarter and nine months ended Sept 30, 2025. Kin Founder and CEO Sean Harper said that they continue to push more volume through their technology platform, which is “generating more operating leverage.” Harper added that their baseline margins were
Parents will still be able to get the hepatitis B vaccine for their children at no cost even though the US Centers for Disease and Control Prevention’s vaccine advisers recommended a major change to the immunization practice. The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, whose members were chosen by US Health and Human Services Secretary