Is the group risk industry really growing its market penetration? A dig below the headline figures would suggest it is not says Busy Bees Benefits managing director Wojciech Dochan One of the...
The Government should rethink its cut to bereavement benefits and employers should be given fiscal incentives to offer group income protection says Baroness Altmann. Altmann’s call for a rethink on bereavement benefits...
GIP insurer’s early intervention and rehabilitation services are now returning more than one in four workers back to work, according to industrywide group risk statistics published today. Group Risk Development’s GIP return...
Group income protection could be the key to promoting the Government’s aim of greater investment in employees’ health and wellbeing, Disability minister Penny Mordaunt MP told a debate in Parliament yesterday. Speaking...
Excepted group life plans grew by almost 30 per cent over the last year, as individuals looked at ways to get round the new £1m pension lifetime allowance, according to Swiss Re’s...
Advisers need to wake up to the new world order of Group Risk and start to communicate value as well as price says Canada Life Group Insurance director Paul Avis With every...
A modest investment in a financial incentive for employers taking out group income protection would deliver the Government a substantial return says Zurich head of market management, corporate risk Nick Homer The...
New tax and National Insurance charges will be levied on group income protection (GIP) and excepted group life insurance (EGLP) offered through flexible benefit arrangements run through salary sacrifice, the Government has...
A series of deep cuts in state benefits mean the need for group risk products has never been greater, says Canada Life Group Insurance marketing director Paul Avis The first rule of...
A £30 per employee flat rate reduction in National Insurance could see a further 1.5m UK workers covered by group income protection and save the Government £220m over 5 years, says the...
