Group Risk

Companies are struggling to provide private medical insurance (PMI) for their employees with premium prices reportedly rising by around a fifth last year. “Businesses with private medical have seen big and often...

Aviva paid £1.99bn across 61,632 individual and group protection claims last year. This was up from £1.89bn across 61,975 claims in 2024. The insurer paid more than 51,000 individual protection claims last...

The Protection Distributors Group’s (PDG) is challenging insurers to look at collaborative solutions to reverse what one adviser has called the ‘worst service levels seen in 20 years’. This is according to...

Scott Cadger, head of protection product, underwriting and claims at Scottish Widows, is to leave the group after 21 years with the business. Cadger (pictured) announced his impending departure from Scottish Widows...

The huge burden of employees caring for a loved one with cancer is often misunderstood.  This is according to Denise Wond, marketing director at Reframe Cancer (pictured), who was speaking at an...

Spectrum.Life has entered the Australian market through the acquisitions of Melbourne-based MindFit at Work and Sydney-based We Lysn and Valion Health. Rather than entering the Australian market organically, Spectrum.Life explained it has...

Benefits payable from stand-alone registered group life pension schemes will be exempt from inheritance tax (IHT) changes, the government has clarified. This aligns with the treatment of retirement benefit schemes that provide...

Marsh has appointed Phil Parkinson as CEO of Mercer UK, a business of Marsh.  Subject to regulatory approval, Parkinson (pictured) is expected to take up his new role in the coming weeks...

Visible Start is expanding its reach into the health and protection insurance sector to help address talent shortages in the industry. The firm delivers structured workforce re-entry and talent engagement programmes designed...

Legal & General saw its individual protection new business rise last year driven by consumer demand while the group offering flatlined. The insurer also revealed that a successor to departing chief risk...