Group Risk

The Protection Distributors Group (PDG) has added three new members to its ranks. Caspian Insurance Services and Pure Protect join as organisational members, with former Cabinet Office disability and access ambassador for...

The Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) fair value product rules have come into force today. The rules ensure that general insurance products, including health and protection policies, must be assessed to ensure they...

Networking events, sharing best practice and help with recruitment for candidates and companies are some of the ways insurance industry group Gain intends to unlock the potential of neurodivergent talent in the...

Sian Fisher is to step down as CEO of the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) after more than six years at the helm of the professional body. Fisher (pictured) will complete her six-month...

The end of furlough is fuelling increased demand for mental health support, according to insurers. Data obtained by Health & Protection reveals that around 15% of requests for mental health consultations to...

Panic buying of petrol across the country is threatening to push advisers back into remote working, curtailing the return of client meetings and work in the office. In August, Health & Protection...

Nearly half of Britons have never seen a financial adviser but doing so boosts protection uptake, according to research from The Openwork Partnership. It found 45% of all 2,000 respondents had never...

Law firm BDB Pitmans has joined group risk industry body Grid. The law firm, which has worked on group life and excepted group life trusts for employers, insurers and independent trustees, said...

Introducing simple protection policies, group risk auto-enrolment and microinsurance products would help reduce lower-income customers’ exclusion from insurance, the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA) has said. The panel of lower-income people...

Unum UK has appointed John Hyde as chief marketing officer. Hyde joins Unum’s executive committee from Hastings Direct where he was head of growth products and previously spent nine years at Legal...