Group risk payouts up £41m as 7,800 referred to support
The headline figure for total payouts rose by £120m, to £1.6bn paid out in claims in 2017, but a change in the way group income protection figures are reported accounted for £79m...
The headline figure for total payouts rose by £120m, to £1.6bn paid out in claims in 2017, but a change in the way group income protection figures are reported accounted for £79m...
If consultants and advisers in the field of health and wellbeing wanted a validation that the products and services they recommend are value for money, the Stevenson/Farmer Thriving At Work Review of...
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Unum’s employee assistance programme (EAP), provided by LifeWorks, received 12,610 calls in 2017, 70 per cent of which related to mental health issues. A further 14 per cent of callers had legal...
The Government’s Fit for Work occupational health assessment service is to be closed down two years after it was set up because it received less than 2 per cent of the number...
The group risk sector offers valuable benefits to employers and employees but should do more product development to ensure the true value of group income protection is understood by them, minister for...
The scale of the challenge facing the group risk sector’s efforts to grow into new markets has been highlighted by research showing just 9 per cent of employees say they would value...
Ellipse is extending its group income protection range with the launch of a new sick pay product for employers that do not want an integrated absence management tool. Called Sick Pay, the...
A fifth of UK workers would be more likely to go into work with a mental illness than a physical one and just 20 per cent would take time off for a...
Zurich paid out on over 97 percent of its new group income protection claims last year with employees benefitting from annualised payments averaging £37,900. Announcing its GIP claims rates for the first...