Group Risk

The Boss, Bach, Coldplay and even an adviser's son's own band feature among our latest list of stress-busting songs the great and the good from the sector listen to in order to...

Insurers have outlined to Health & Protection how the changes to national insurance contributions (NICs) will effect employers with group income protection (GIP) plans. UK businesses now have to pay higher National...

Reframe Cancer has appointed professor Ben Kelly as chief operating officer. He joins Reframe Cancer from Nuffield Health, where he spent 10 years within their senior leadership team. As data director, Kelly...

Progress has been made in turning around protection market sales and the latest quarterly data has shown increased demand for income protection is continuing apace. But the protection gap persists, particularly among...

Group income protection (GIP) and private medical insurance (PMI) address slightly different needs and both have an important role to play in improving workplace wellbeing. This is according to Ron Wheatcroft, technical...

There are eight days left to vote in the UK Health & Protection Awards 2025. Advisers, brokers and other intermediaries including employee benefit consultants can vote to recognise the providers they believe...

Attempting to save money on removing duplication of added value services from group risk products and employee benefits could actually increase an employer's tax liabilities. This is according to Ron Wheatcroft, technical...

The UK group risk market added more than half a million lives covered in 2024 although the rate of expansion slowed due to a more challenging backdrop, according to Swiss Re’s latest...

Broadstone has hired Lindsay Kenny as SME business development consultant, joining from Towergate where she had been an employee benefits consultant since October 2008. The firm said Kenny (pictured) had gained significant...

Bernhard Kaufmann will succeed Patrick Raaflaub as Swiss Re's group chief risk officer as of 1 October 2025. Kaufmann (pictured) has held chief risk officer positions across the reinsurance and insurance sectors...