Group Risk

The UK Health & Protection Awards 2024 has launched and is now open for adviser entries, including a new category for networks and distributor services. Health & Protection would also like to...

Tim Stoves is stepping down as Canada Life managing director for group protection - bringing to an end a 20-year career with the firm, the insurer has confirmed. He will be succeeded...

Digital mental health and wellbeing platform provider Spectrum.Life has joined group risk industry body Grid.  Spectrum.Life provides digital health, mental health, and wellbeing services, featuring a wellbeing platform and content solutions developed...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has rejected calls from smaller financial firms for it to intervene in the professional indemnity insurance (PII) market. The regulator dismissed pleas from two of its engagement...

The Consumer Duty will not be applied retrospectively to complaints received by it and the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS), the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has emphasised. The regulator repeated its assertion about...

Insurers need to proactively ensure second-hand trauma experienced when handling distressing claims is understood across the sector. This is according to a report from the 2022/23 Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) New Generation...

The competition regulator has opened an investigation into Aviva’s £460m takeover of AIG Life UK and its potential to substantially lessen competition in the sector. The initial part of the investigation is...

The protection industry's future is now as much about helping employers and UK workers with prevention and early intervention, as it is about providing financial peace of mind when long-term illness or...

Craven Street Wealth has acquired health and protection employee benefits consultants Punter Southall Aspire. Announcing the news from their LinkedIn account, the wealth manager described the move as a "significant but very...

Employers want guidance and support from advisers and providers but must take a more strategic approach to their health and risk benefits, Owain Thomas hears. VIEW THE ROUNDTABLE SUPPLEMENT HERE   Employers...