Group Risk

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has written to life insurance CEOs with key questions they must ask themselves ahead of the looming Consumer Duty deadline for closed products and services at the...

The health and protection industry needs to make a "really, really" clear case that long-called for tax breaks will deliver increased take-up of cover and will not hurt the exchequer. This is...

The insurance sector has been challenged to show greater leadership in demonstrating the value that brokers bring to designing commissions and on policing non-financial misconduct and promoting healthy work cultures. The challenge...

Specialist managing general agent (MGA) Risk Assurance Management Ltd (RAM) has announced a strategic collaboration with mutual Shepherds Friendly and global reinsurer SiriusPoint. Expanding on the partnership, a spokesperson for the companies...

HCML has reported a 38% increase in mental health assessments carried out in the last year when compared to 2022/23. The corporate health and wellbeing specialist carried out 8,483 assessments compared to...

Shortlists for the UK Health & Protection Awards 2024 provider categories have been revealed after advisers voted to support their favoured providers. The shortlists cover 13 categories spanning the breadth of the...

Mortgage and protection firm Access Financial Services has appointed Jeremy Lock as director of compliance. Lock joins from Absolute Return Investment Advisers (ARIA) where he was head of compliance. Previously, Lock was...

Towergate Health & Protection has appointed Kate Kilpatrick as head of marketing - employee benefits. Following the creation of its centralised advisory marketing team last year, Kilpatrick (pictured) will work in partnership...

Mental ill health accounted for the most common reason for customers to call Zurich’s employee assistance programme (EAP), but this coincided with a dramatic increase in the number of customer calls on...

Alexander Beard Group has joined commercial insurance, risk management, and employee benefits brokerage group Assurex Global Partnership. Founded in 1954, Ohio-based Assurex Global is a partnership of more than 100 independent agents...