Group Risk

The government continues to rake in record amounts from insurance premium tax (IPT) as latest HMRC figures show it collected a total of £2.1bn in the third quarter the current financial year. ...

Group Risk Development has appointed Legal & General’s Colin Fitzgerald to be its new chair. Fitzgerald, who is distribution director of group protection at L&G, has worked in the employee benefits industry...

Employee benefits provider Unum UK has enhanced its carer’s leave  by giving all staff with caring responsibilities up to 5 days paid leave a year. This will be available to Unum’s 850 plus...

Those aged between 50 and 64 are more likely to be absent from work due to ill health than younger age groups.  The Office of National Statistics’ sickness absence data — covering...

Dipa Mistry-Kandola has stepped down from her role as CEO of Cloud8, the employee benefits technology platform acquired by Benefex last October. Cloud8 is a white-labelled software as-a-service provider that was founded...

Progress is definitely being made by the group critical illness (CI) market as statistics from Swiss Re’s Group Watch show (see Box) In-force group CI policies (both employer-paid and voluntary) were 11.6 per...

Wellness trends, employee health needs and competitor pressures can make an organisation’s wellbeing programme look seriously out of shape. To ensure it keeps packing a punch, workplace wellbeing must be an ongoing...

The Treasury looks set to collect a record amount of insurance premium tax this year, with receipts to date up by 11 per cent.  HMRC tax receipts, covering the first two thirds...

Lucy Pearce has joined the senior management team at Advo, becoming a shareholding director and co-owner alongside Larry Bulmer, Colin Boxall and Chris McCracken. Pearce first joined Advo in 2006 and has...

One in 10 employees using virtual GPs and mental health apps are making appointments for dependents under 18 years of age. Data from Legal & General and Teladoc shows the demand for...