Group Risk

Anne Drugnick is to head Secondsight’s health and protection division, following the successful acquisition and integration of Punter Southall’s employee benefits advisory business. Drugnick (pictured) joined Punter Southall back in 2002 as...

The shortlists for the UK Health & Protection Awards 2024 adviser categories have now been revealed. The shortlists cover 15 categories spanning the breadth of the health and protection insurance industry. This...

A key component of Zurich's new optional, paid-for add-on service for its individual protection products was influenced by a personal experience very close to home, according to the insurer's head of proposition...

Aviva has expanded the children’s benefit on its group critical illness policy with the addition of four new child-specific conditions.  The conditions are: Down's syndrome, Edwards syndrome, Osteogenesis imperfecta and Patau syndrome. ...

AIG Life paid out a record £394m in protection insurance claims and 95% of all individual protection claims in 2023. The UK life insurance firm, now part of Aviva Group, provided support...

Global reinsurer PartnerRe has joined group risk industry body Grid. PartnerRe is a global reinsurance company with more than $10bn in total capital offering group reinsurance solutions to the UK and Irish...

Broadstone has launched a standalone insurance, regulatory and risk advisory division. The division will service the life and non-life insurance sector including Lloyds and London market, in addition to redress solutions and...

Wellbeing programmes are “fantastic“ and an underweighted element in employer reward strategies, but organisations have been told they must do better at measuring and understanding their value. Mizuho Bank head of HR...

Legal & General paid total group protection claims of almost £350m in 2023. That included £249.4m in group life assurance, £73.7m for group income protection (GIP) and £26.2m for group critical illness....

Advisers in the health and protection markets overwhelmingly expect a majority Labour government to be installed from the coming general election, polling by Health & Protection has found. Yesterday Rishi Sunak surprised...