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...
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...
Almost 9 out of 10 employees who engaged with rehabilitation services offered through Aviva’s group income protection (GIP) products made a successful return to work, according to figures from the insurer released...
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...
