Healthcare

Legal & General added three new support services to its group critical illness product. Members will now get access to a second medical opinion service, a nurse support service and a medical...

Babylon Health, the virtual GP service used by a number of health insurance providers, has admitted it has suffered a data breach.  The breach was identified after a user, who was a...

Anna Matty has been appointed chief operating officer for Axa PPP Healthcare, replacing Mark Howes who is retiring in July. Matty was formerly global vice president, decision analytics, strategic programmes for Experian....

The House of Lords has recognised the role that the group risk sector will play in helping employers adapt to a post-Covid environment.  In a debate Lord Hunt of Wirral commended the...

More than a third of employers do not provide financial support for staff diagnosed with a serious illness such as cancer. Group Risk Development (Grid), the industry body for the group risk...

More that one in three workers (35 per cent) have continued to work while unwell during lockdown according to a new research by Canada Life.  The survey found that almost half of...

Following Rishi Sunak’s first budget statement on 11 March 2020, the claim allowance was raised to £6 per week to cover household bills incurred while working remotely – effective from 6 April 2020....

Mercifully, the fact that group risk providers don’t pay different rates of commission spares us from the brouhaha so prevalent in the private medical insurance (PMI) field, where commission rates can differ significantly...

Legal & General is urging people with symptoms which may be linked to serious illness  to seek medical advice from their GP, after it emerged its critical illness claims had fallen by...

Specialist intermediary Nugent Santé  has going the trade body Group Risk Development (Grid). Nugent Santé launched four years ago and works across the health and protection sector. Founder and managing director Paul...