Group Risk

Advisers operating in the health and protection insurance industries will not now be charged with funding the regulator’s advice guidance boundary review (AGBR). Fee rates for advisers will also be trimmed slightly...

Broadstone has appointed Bethany Devin as principal consultant – health and risk within its employee benefits consulting division. Devin (pictured) joins from Everywhen where she was a principal consultant. A former a...

Legal & General (L&G) and Perci Health have launched a toolkit aimed at helping employers improve how they support their employees who have been diagnosed with cancer. The toolkit has been designed...

The government is to create a workplace health intelligence unit to help reduce employee absence and, therefore, boost productivity. The move was announced today in an update of Sir Charlie Mayfield’s Keep...

Alan Milburn’s action plan on youth labour market inactivity is set to be published in September and has the backing of the likely successor to the prime minister. This is according to...

The Income Protection Taskforce (IPTF) is launching a financial education initiative to teach young adults about managing their money and the financial services industry. The initiative, called Financial Foundations was soft launched...

Shepherds Friendly has appointed Laura Gauden as head of sales with a brief to grow the mutual society’s intermediary partnerships. Gauden (pictured) brings more than 20 years of mortgage and insurance intermediary...

I recently sat on a panel about claims modernisation. The room was full of people whose job is to pay claims faster: carriers, technology vendors, a McKinsey partner moderating. We spent 40...

Employers need to act earlier to reduce the £85bn they collectively lose each year to poor health in their workforce, the Association of Medical Insurers and Intermediaries (AMII) health and wellbeing summit...

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is no excuse for obstructing vulnerable protection customers from accessing added value services. This is according to protection industry veteran and Morgan Ash chairman Johnny Timpson (pictured),...