Group Life

How can master trusts help grow the group market? We know there are hundreds of thousands of small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) that may be interested in protecting their workforce with a...

Group life policies and other pure protection arrangements are to be exempted from anti-money laundering obligations under proposals published by HMRC today. Both excepted and registered trusts are to be exempted from...

How can master trusts help grow the group life market? We know there are hundreds of thousands of small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) that may be interested in protecting their workforce with...

Workplaces need to do more to support employees coping with bereavment, according to new research from MetLife UK. The group risk insurer found that this issue impacted significant numbers of employees, with...

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...