Long-term disability income premiums stood at £724m in 2017, up 6.3 per cent on the previous year, while death-in service premiums rose to £1.3bn, an increase of 4.3 per cent. Group critical illness...
GIP insurer’s early intervention and rehabilitation services are now returning more than one in four workers back to work, according to industrywide group risk statistics published today. Group Risk Development’s GIP return...
Child-specific illnesses such as cerebral palsy, cystic fibrosis and muscular dystrophy are to be covered in Aviva’s group critical illness offering, a move the insurer is describing as a first for the...
A unified narrative that offers SMEs, micros and the Just About Managing tangible assistance is the best way for the benefits sector to influence Government’s shaping of the tax and regulatory framework....
Zurich is appointing Tulsi Naidu as CEO of its UK business, charged with driving the integration of its general insurance and life operations. Reporting to Gary Shaughnessy, CEO for Europe, Middle East...
The growth of fintech and the wider use of big data will revolutionise insurance but could create an uninsurable ‘underclass’, according to new research. The Financial Technology Risk Report, published today by...
Employer strategies to address stress and mental ill health are reducing their impact as a cause of long-term absence according to Group Risk Development (Grid). New research from Grid shows stress and...
Aviva is launching what it describes as a market first relevant life insurance plan that comes with the option to add critical illness cover. One of two new business protection products on...
Whatever method you use to measure growth, there can be no doubt that group critical illness cover grew significantly last year. But if you are of the glass-half-empty point of view then...
The Office of Fair Trading is a very powerful organisation within the UK’s political and regulatory set up. If it believes a market is seriously malfunctioning it can recommend that the Government...
