MetLife is introducing an employee assistance programme (EAP) for its SME proposition to target smaller employers’ need to improve their employees’ wellbeing. The EAP, available to members of SME group life schemes...
A new digital employee benefits broker has launched targeting the small business market. Hooray Health & Protection claims to offer more cost-effective ways for SMEs to buy group risk and health insurance,...
In total more two-fifths (43 per cent) of businesses had employees absent for at least four weeks due to ill-health over the last two years, according to research from the British Chambers...
Take-up of support services offered by group risk providers has historically been very low, meaning that both employers and employees are missing out on many of these benefits these insurance products can...
Healthtech and digital medicine are increasingly been pushed as amongst the most effective ways to manage workplace wellbeing, health, absence and engagement. Group risk providers are starting to adopt new digital solutions...
AIG Life is adding a virtual GP and health service to all of its individual and group protection insurance offerings. The online tool called Smart Health gives all AIG Life individual customers...
Group life insurance has a specific challenge with the use of two trust vehicles to provide death benefits which purport to do the same thing. Group life insurance is a workplace benefit, paid...
Millennials are the generational group most likely to want to protection their income, according to new research from Canada Life. It found that 28 per cent of employees aged between 18 and...
Some argue that employee benefits consultants that turn a blind eye to the potential opportunities of expanding into areas such as business protection, group personal accident (PA) cover and Unum’s sick pay insurance...
Knowledge of group risk products remains low among the UK workforce, particularly when compared to other countries, according to a new research. Zurich - in partnership with Oxford University - surveyed workers...
