Unum is extending access to its Help@hand health and wellbeing app to life insurance and critical illness policyholders with 250 employees or less, at no cost, giving employees direct access to medical...
Towergate Health & Protection is warning employers they urgently need to improve engagement with employees as the economy moves out of lockdown. Employers who fail to do this could lose staff warns...
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought home to employers and employees the true value of group risk insurance, both in terms of the core insurance and associated health and wellbeing benefits. For many years...
Despite the pandemic, the UK sickness absence rate has fallen to 1.8 per cent in 2020, the lowest recorded level since the data time series began in 1995, according to figures from...
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought home to employers and employees the true value of group risk insurance, both in terms of the core insurance and associated health and wellbeing benefits. For many years...
Sponsored content Aviva’s research revealed that more employees are soldiering on when they’re unwell as they work from home during the pandemic. Although there are competing definitions of presenteeism, it’s broadly accepted that...
Canada Life will now offers its WeCare virtual support package to all group income protection customers. Canada Life has offered this service to its CLASS customers since November 2020. WeCare, which is...
Sponsored content The value of group protection hasn’t changed. The need for people to protect their life, their ability to earn an income and to keep a roof over their heads remains....
Traditionally group protection and its individually-advised counterpart have been worlds apart, with corporate plans having entirely different underwriting processes and pricing to retail cover. But as employers look to get ‘more for...
Almost half (44 per cent) of advisers believe resolving customer problems has become harder while home working, while just 12 per cent of insurers share that view, according to research from The...
