Group Risk

Advisers are dubious over whether government commitments to improve access to GPs will prove successful amid soaring demand for virtual GP services from customers. The commitments feature in health and social care...

The government's reversal of its National Insurance Contributions (NICs) hike to fund the health and social care levy will hit the UK's coffers to the tune of more than £65bn over the...

Complaints about income protection (IP) insurance dropped by 15% in the first quarter of the 2022-23 financial year, according to data from the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS). The latest data showed 171...

Advice firm Beckett Financial Services has joined group risk industry body Grid. Lesley Delaney, operations director at Becketts, said: "We can see so many opportunities in membership of Grid, and we’re very...

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has updated its minimum standards for critical illness (CI) policies that must be adopted by all insurers offering these products. Changes have been made to how...

Aviva is extending the cover it offers under individual critical illness (CI) policies including cancer, dementia and mental health disorders. The insurer is understood to be the first to use the Association...

Zurich has launched family income cover for new policies which provides a monthly income instead of a lump sum payment that is paid out for the remaining policy term. The feature is...

AIG has priced the initial public offering of life and retirement business Corebridge Financial at US$21 per share. In a statement the insurer revealed it expected trading to begin on 15 September,...

Miles Robinson speaks to Health & Protection about striking out on his own to launch mortgage and protection advisory firm Home Group Financial. Most recently an interim chief commercial officer at Haysto,...

IPipeline has entered into a strategic partnership in the US with ICover, an insurtech provider of algorithmic underwriting for streamlining the assessment, pricing, and delivery of life insurance. This strategic alliance aims...