Group Risk

UK employees are resisting accessing group protection plans because they are concerned that their employer will find out too much about their health or private life. This is according to a new...

Failing to ensure employee benefits are correctly aligned to contracts of employment could leave firms facing uninsured liabilities running into hundreds of thousands of pounds. This is the warning from health and...

Amba has launched a new ethical employee benefits platform designed to appeal to millennial and Gen Z employees.  This new platform will include access to net zero pension Cushon as well as...

The vaccine rollout and a planned end to lockdown has boosted consumer confidence about their future health and wealth prospects.  The latest Wealth and Wellbeing Monitor from LV= shows that rising proportion...

MetLife UK is expanding its group life EAP, which will now cover all employers with up to 1,000 staff.  Until now this benefit was only available to its SME client base, and...

Zurich saw a 23 per cent increase in the value of life, critical illness and income protection payouts made in 2020, compared to the previous year, with life claims up by 27...

Succession Employee Benefit Solutions is the latest intermediary firm to join industry body Group Risk Development (Grid). The firm, which the employee benefits division of Succession Wealth, said joining Grid would give...

After a year of staying at home and working remotely as companies battle to maintain businesses through lockdowns it is easy to forget how quickly and effectively organisations have adapted. Office for...

Almost 900 dependants received pay-outs following Covid-related deaths of workers covered by group life in the period to the end of 2020, says Group Risk Development. Pay outs to this group of...

Almost a quarter of UK office workers don’t take any breaks during their working day, apart from lunch breaks, and 46 per cent of people said that their employers and line managers...