Leading health insurance specialist April UK has joined up with Cardiff Metropolitan University in an effort to bridge the growing generation gap in the insurance industry. The problem was underlined at a high powered summit earlier this week where delegates from the insurance sector were warned about the potential consequences of PMI being regarded as something only older people were interested in.

April UK Marketing Manager Isaac Lam said delegates at the Association of Medical Insurance Intermediaries’ summit had been urged to attract a new generation of customers in the under 40 age bracket - or risk relying on an ever-shrinking market share. He said: “Companies were warned in the starkest possible terms about the consequences of failing to address the growing age gap in the insurance industry and urged to ensure that at least 20 per cent of their customers were in the under 40 bracket. “We have been targeting the younger age groups for some time through our successful sports PMI policies but we have now come up with a new package aimed specifically at students – from both sporting and academic backgrounds.”

The new policy has been formulated in partnership with Cardiff Metropolitan University and will be rolled out to Freshers this year.

Isaac Lam said: “The new policy has been formulated to give students a realistic and affordable level of protection at an early stage of their adult life. “We have worked closely with CMU to ensure the package will appeal to students and provide the next generation of customers the industry needs.”

A number of other universities have already expressed a strong interest in their student plan. April UK is already looking to extend the scheme across the country. In the meantime details of the new policy will be handed out to this year’s intake at Cardiff. “As well as its reputation for academic excellence Cardiff is also well known as a sports college and we have already had extensive experience promoting our sports PMI packages to future sports professionals.

“Our future business leaders will quickly discover their future earning power depends on their own health and capability, just as it does for the professional sports person who might have graduated alongside them.”

The policy is for people in full time education only and provides a substantial discount to the cost of a normal adult PMI package, with comprehensive cover for someone aged up to 21 costing £17.09 a month. Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, APRIL UK is part of the international APRIL Group headquartered in Lyon, France, which looks after six million policyholders in 37 countries worldwide. The group has a market value in excess of £776 million.

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 With the increasing demand for international private medical insurance, ALC Health has launched two new plans to complement its existing range of Prima healthcare products. Prima Concept is a new budget plan targeting those who are looking for their basic healthcare necessities to be covered including hospital care, specialist treatments, family doctor fees and emergency evacuation benefits.

Aimed at the growing demand for low cost quality international medical insurance plans across Asia, Europe, Africa and the Middle East, Prima Concept offers a choice of currency and excess options that make this new plan particularly attractive to anyone looking for medical insurance on a budget.

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Andrew Apps, Director at ALC Health comments: “We have been listening carefully to what iPMI brokers across the world have been saying to us about the need for both high level and value added products which would fill the gap around many traditional expatriate plans common place to international medical insurance providers. Their insight has been invaluable and enabled ALC Health to create two exciting new iPMI solutions that we believe provide a real answer to the growing demand for flexible international private medical insurance particularly across the emerging markets of South East Asia and Continental Africa where demand for products that combine financial security with high quality customer support has never been greater. Whether there is a need for traditional expatriate cover, a ‘no frills’ package or an all-encompassing top end solution, ALC Health’s new extended range of Prima Healthcare plans really do fit the bill in more ways than one.”

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