In March 2020, as independent hospitals made their capacity available to the NHS to fight Covid-19 and private treatment was postponed, the future of group medical insurance seemed very uncertain. But, while 2021...
Last week’s Supreme Court’s landmark ruling that Uber’s claimant drivers could be classed as ‘workers’, not self-employed, will translate into essential protections, in terms of more pay and job security, plus financial...
The march of new technology is driving both innovation and disruption across many areas of the economy, but to date the workplace protection sector has remained largely insulated from these changes. Yet...
Covid has plunged the nation into a new age of ambiguity, in which previously certain elements of our social and working lives are overlapping and changing beyond recognition – with big consequences...
The number of consumers with low financial resilience has soared from 10.7m to 14.2m during 2020 as the pandemic took its toll on UK households, a bleak report from the FCA has...
A big majority - 86 per cent of employers said they have prioritised employee communications as a result of the pandemic, with 71 per cent of employers now conducting research among their...
Canada Life is extending access to its WeCare virtual services offering to its group income protection customers, going live on 1st March. WeCare brings employees and their family members health, mental health...
Mental health has been severely challenged in 2020 as employees have been buffeted by the pandemic. Corporate Adviser editor John Greenwood hears from Eugene Farrell, mental health lead at AXA Health, about...
Legal & General Insurance has named Dr Tarun Gupta as its new medical officer (MO) to provide medical opinion on complex group risk cases. Gupta is an NHS GP, clinical commissioner and...
Two in five expats feel as though their mental health has deteriorated as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, new research from Axa has found. A survey of 578 expats found that...
