Group Risk

More than one in five – 21 per cent - of smaller firms expect to lay off staff by September and 90 per cent of employers say their staff have approached them...

Individual protection sales suffered their first fall for seven years, with income protection down by nearly a tenth, as Covid-19 took its toll on the insurance industry, according to Swiss Re’s latest...

Many business areas have been decimated by Covid-19, but group risk certainly hasn’t been one of them. Indeed, if someone glancing at Swiss Re’s Group Watch 2021 was hypothetically unaware of the pandemic,...

With millions of employees working from home, and this practice likely to remain long after the pandemic is over, a new set of occupational health challenges are emerging. Adapting their approach and using...

There are nearly 3 million requests into GP practices for patient medical reports each year, requests submitted by insurers, third parties and government agencies. GP practices are busy, even more so at...

Group Risk Development (Grid) will be running its Introduction to Group Risk Insurance training course in six workshops and is introducing an optional online assessment that gives successful delegates a training certificate. The...

 Wealth at Work, the financial education, guidance and advice organisation, has secured further investment from private equity house Aquiline Capital Partners to support its continued growth. Established in 2005, the Wealth at Work group delivers...

Last month I looked at the implications of FCA paper FS 21/7 for the workplace benefits market. When designing a strategy to implement this, it is also important to explore changes in...

European employee benefits firm Verlingue has set itself a target of increasing its turnover by 300 per cent in the next three years by bringing new firms and individuals into its organisation....

Health Shield has extended its newly launched occupational health platform to include home-working, returning from furlough and onsite risk surveillance assessments.  It says there is a need for intermediaries to focus on...