High premiums, product complexity and a lack of market growth have turned group medical insurance into a no-go area for some advisers. But an upswing in virgin business shows that opportunities are...
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...
Debbie Abrahams has been forced to step aside from her role as shadow secretary of state for work and pensions pending an investigation by the Labour Party into claims she has been...
Women make up just 37 per cent of the 11 million people within the target group for auto-enrolment, despite making up 46 per cent of the workforce. This disparity is in part...
Jardine Lloyd Thompson (JLT) has bought SME broker Chartwell Healthcare to create a £200m premium PMI and group risk business. Chartwell is headquartered in Bristol and has 50 employees, specialises in private...
Acquisitive commercial broker Stackhouse Poland has bought Lancashire-based Caprica Healthcare, the specialist provider of private medical insurance services to commercial and private clients. The acquisition more than doubles the existing health insurance...
Aviva UK is exiting the international private medical insurance, with existing and new customers in future to be offered terms by Aetna International. Aviva UK will stop offering IPMI cover from 1...
Collective DC risks being misunderstood and is not a solution to the problem of stressed DB schemes, but its introduction could improve standards of workplace pension provision, a survey of Pensions Management...
Cash plan provider Health Shield is buying PMI ecess and shortfall protection provider Medex Protect for an undisclosed fee. The deal adds another product to Health Shield’s existing range, enabling the provider...
Brexit-fuelled political uncertainty, the sharp hike in insurance premium tax (IPT) and an increase in patients self funding have been blamed for a stagnating private medical insurance market, says Laing Buisson. But...
