Group Risk

Group Risk Development (Grid) has written to chancellor Rachel Reeves urgently requesting guidance on how proposed inheritance tax changes will apply to death in service payments, Health & Protection can reveal. Proposals...

The inclusion of group life in the government’s captive framework has been welcomed but it is not expected to have a major impact on the industry or country unless further benefits are...

Recognising cancer as a long-term, manageable condition, employers are facing unprecedented challenges and opportunities in workplace support, as Richard Browne hears.   The conversation around cancer in the workplace is undergoing significant...

The group life and employee benefits sector has been included in HM Treasury’s (HMT) plans for the new UK captive insurance regime, having been excluded from the original proposals. The first consultation...

Insurers paid out a record £8bn in combined group and individual protection claims in 2024, although approval rates slipped across critical illness (CI) and income protection (IP) products. That is the equivalent...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) believes customer service in the general insurance and protection markets has improved over the last three years, despite outcomes only improving by a couple of percentage points....

A quartet representing Vitality and MetLife took the acclaim as best team at the annual Santé Group charity golf day. The fourth annual event, held for a third year at The Belfry,...

Intermediaries in the health and protection insurance markets will see a steeper drop in the fee rate payable to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) than previously expected due to soaring revenues. In...

Spectrum.Life has promoted Ellie Janik to the role of director of client success.  Janik was previously the strategic customer success manager when she started at Spectrum.Life at the beginning of the year. ...

Broadstone has announced the appointment of Rob Kerry as actuarial director from Utmost. He joins Broadstone’s insurance, regulatory and risk division within its life insurance team which delivers a range of actuarial...