Group Risk

The Labour government has announced plans to change sick pay rules, to ensure the UK's lowest paid workers receive up to 80 per cent of their weekly salary from their first day...

L&G Group Protection has seen a 79 per cent increase in usage of its digital health services over the past year.  This figure — contained its third chief medical officer report —...

L&G Group Protection's platform, Onix, has seen significant growth with application volumes increasing by 92 per cent, renewals jumping by 99 per cent, and new group income protection business growing by 85...

Aon has appointed  Matt Duffy to the newly created role of chief commercial officer for global benefits. Based in the UK, Duffy will report to Aon’s head of global benefits, Michael Pedel,...

Group risk products now offer a range of added-value features that are increasingly being used by policyholders. Many are virtual healthcare services, initially introduced during the Covid lockdown, but now aimed at...

It has been another busy year for the group risk, health insurance and wellbeing sectors, particularly with renewed focus on productivity issues caused by long-term ill-health in the workplace. The new Labour...

With their generous free cover limits and largely rules-based methodology, group risk providers have significantly lagged their group private medical insurance (PMI) counterparts in usage of technology during the underwriting process. Although...

Nine out of 10 employers want a better understanding of the risk profile of the health and wellbeing of their employees, according to new research. The study by Towergate Employee Benefits found...

Almost eight out of 10 (77 per cent) of SMEs are planning to revamp their employee benefits packages in a bid to win and retain talent and address growing problems around employee...

Canada Life has made two senior non-executives appointments to its board as it looks to transform and modernise its UK business. It has appointed Andy Parsons as an independent non-executive director. Parsons...