Group Risk

Employers have been urged to not just support employees at the point of bereavement but six months later in the form of a review to identify "problematic" grief. The calls comes from...

Howden Employee Benefits & Wellbeing has promoted Cheryl Brennan to managing director of Howden Employee Benefits UK. Brennan (pictured) joined Howden as director of corporate consulting in May 2019 from Punter Southall...

Start-ups have woken up to the fact that health and life insurance benefits can no longer be the preserve of large corporates, according to Charlie Cousins, founder of Hooray Health & Protection....

The number of people suffering symptoms associated with long Covid in the UK has now reached more than a million. The latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) data covering the period to...

Legacy life insurance solutions provider Resolution Life has appointed Simon Woods as group chief financial officer. Woods (pictured) joins Resolution Life from professional services firm EY in Zurich, where he was a...

Insurers have been focusing on recruiting hundreds of new starters rather than the need to welcome back workers as the government's furlough scheme has ended. While the furlough scheme was a lifeline...

Insurance technology business Instanda has joined group risk industry body Grid. Commenting on the development, Simon Candy, senior manager of propositions and business development for Instanda, said: “We see it as our job...

Three quarters of SME owners have never heard of relevant life plan or executive income protection, according to research from Legal & General. However, the insurer also found when the benefits of...

Protection distributor Cavendish Online has launched its revised quote and apply system across its direct-to-consumer, advised and non-advised sales channels. The IPipeline Consumer Apply technology enables the firm to access direct-to-consumer products...

Vitality has launched a digital learning series to help advisers meet the growing demand for workplace wellbeing advice and support. The series of five Chartered Institute of Insurers (CII) accredited courses look...