The employee benefits sector has strengthened significantly in the wake of the Covid pandemic. The health and wellbeing of staff has now moved towards the top of many employers’ agenda, with the...
The workplace health and protection sector continued to grow across virtually all product lines, with insurers increasing both the number of employees covered and overall number of employer clients across group life,...
SPONSORED CONTENT Most employers instinctively know that wellbeing matters to people and to business. Quantifying how much it matters is another thing entirely. So, it stands to reason that small to medium...
Legal & General paid out over £335m in group protection claims in 2021 - a 4 per cent increase on the year before. There were increases in both the value of life...
It seems natural to have a sense of foreboding about how the group risk claims story might pan out in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. We still have little idea exactly what...
Aegon paid 7 per cent more protection claims in 2021 when compared to figures from the year before according to its latest published data. The insurer said this increase was driven by...
Aegon has launched a new online protection dashboard for advisers. This platform brings together all of Aegon’s protection applications, allowing advisers to complete and submit applications online, track these in real-time and...
Changes to the IR35 rules in April 2021 have clearly resulted in some self-employed workers joining company payrolls. But overall, the numbers of contractors, freelancers and other ‘non-traditional workers’ have been skyrocketing....
SPONSORED COMMENT Insurtech was already a steadily growing sector within the larger tech, startup and fintech spheres when Covid-19 made landfall, catalysed cross-industrial digitization and accelerated the boom. This growth has been...
There was a 50 per cent rise in physiotherapy appointments at the start of 2022, according to Unum, indicating that working from home may be creating ongoing problems for employees. The income...
