Group Risk

Paul Brencher, managing director of individual protection at Aviva UK, has been appointed as the new chair of the Association of British Insurers’ Protection Board. Brencher (pictured), who succeeds outgoing chair Dominic Grinstead...

Legal & General Insurance and Salary Finance have launched a digital group insurance platform that enables employees to dial up or down cover across group life, income protection and critical illness and...

GRiD, the trade body for the group risk and protection industry, has urged  employers to do encourage their staff to make use of their existing employee benefits in the run up to...

There has been a massive surge in the number of people looking for solutions to self-manage and improve their health as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, research shows. Research carried out...

The number of jobs in London being posted on job site Indeed this year has fallen by 50%, compared with 42% across the UK as a whole. Madrid suffered the second largest...

Zurich Australia has announced a new ‘Family Care Policy’ that it says recognises ‘all family circumstances and supports a fair, diverse and inclusive workplace’. A spokesman for the organisation said that it...

A third of professionals (33%) expect businesses to prioritise health over lifestyle employee benefits as a “direct” consequence of COVID-19, according to new research. The study, carried out for MAXIS Global Benefits...

Sickness absence levels in Northern Ireland councils are the highest in the UK, official figures show. Auditors have collected statistics which reveal that workers in the country took an average of almost...

One third of employers do not have financial support in place for employees on long-term sick leave, research shows. A study carried out for trade body Group Risk Development (GRiD) found that...

A new redundancy support services for employers has been launched by Howden Employee Benefits & Wellbeing. The proposition offers practical advice and information, delivered by independent experts to help employers support employees...