Group Risk

Upcoming regulation including changes to product pricing practices, are among the biggest challenges facing insurance professionals in the year ahead. This is according to research from the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) whose...

Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) staff are being balloted for strike action over changes to the regulator’s pay and benefits policy announced in October. The FCA’s original proposals included adding an excess for...

A career breakers programme has successfully helped a candidate return to the insurance sector after more than two decades. Last year, Health & Protection reported about a programme led by Inclusivity Partners...

At the start of 2021, there were 5.5 million small and medium-sized enterprises in the UK. But in our view, the real story is about the micro and small firms, with fewer...

Covid-19 was the main reason for more than half of the UK's income protection (IP) policy purchases last year and it is expected to remain a key force pushing consumer decisions for...

Employee benefits provider Unum has extended access to its health and wellbeing app Help@hand to large group life and critical illness schemes at no cost, meaning all workplace schemes now have access...

Zurich in Australia has appointed Dr Bill Monday as chief medical officer. A CMO for 25 years, Monday has worked with life insurers and reinsurers in Australia and around the world. In...

The cost of the average funeral has gone down in the UK for the first time since at least 2004. This is according to life insurer SunLife's 2022 Cost of Dying Report...

Higher staff departure rates due to the pandemic and increased costs connected to sourcing talent from the EU a year on from Brexit are creating an extremely competitive labour market for insurers....

Zurich has launched standalone critical illness (CI) cover for customers who do not want a product combined with life insurance. It is also widening its Total Permanent Disability (TPD) definition, offering standard...