Group Risk

The number of people covered by corporate group risk policies increased by 3.3 per cent in 2018 - or almost half a million people -  according to the latest sector report by...

People’s personal happiness and wellbeing continues to remain flat, despite rising economic prosperity, according to the latest figures from the Office of National Statistics.  Its latest personal and economic well-being index —...

Why is LifeSearch doing more in the group risk space? Our advisers told us they would like to do more business protection. Initially the route to market was small business owners receiving...

Stephen Hackett, the former head of health and risk at Aon, has just taken the role of head of corporate benefits at technology and benefits firm Benefex. Hackett leaves his most recent...

Employee Assistance Programme provider Care first has joined the industry body Group Risk Development (Grid).  With EAPs increasingly becoming an integral part of group risk products, Care first says it is looking...

Unum is enhancing its Employee Assistance Programme which is available to all group income protection, critical illness and group life customers. This EAP will now offer a range of additional health and...

Workers under 30 are the most likely to suffer from stress and poor mental health in winter, with 55 per cent of this age group more stressed than usual in the season,...

The industry body - Group Risk Development (Grid) - found that only 27 per cent of employers surveyed identified the correct definition of a GCI as “a policy taken out by an...

Aon has confirmed it will not proceed with a reported attempt to buy out Willis Towers Watson, in a proposed deal that would have created a massive employee benefits consultancy in the...

Hyperion X, the newly launched data and technology arm of Hyperion Insurance Group, owner of Howden, has appointed high profile HR tech innovator Michael Whitfield as an adviser. Whitfield joins Hyperion X...