Group Risk

Eight in 10 (82%) employees want proactive return-to-work support from their employer following an illness, while half (49%) say employers should offer it as standard, and a third (33%) think it should...

Consistency of sleep could be a stronger predictor of health risk than the number of hours spent in bed, research from Vitality has discovered. Although sleeping for at least seven hours a...

Business Protection Focus is launching a one-day virtual conference which will take place on 9 September. Stuart Halliwell, owner of Stuart Halliwell Consulting, launched BP Focus week last year to help businesses...

Aviva saw health sales fall by a third in the first half of the year. This is according to the insurer’s H1 2026 results which revealed health new business sales dropped to...

Swiss Re has appointed Damien Bartlett as head of its life and health market unit for UK and Ireland and Middle East and Africa.  The appointment will take effect 1 November 2026. ...

Legal & General protection sales grew significantly during the first half of 2026 due to an increase in margin and completions, the insurer reported. There was a near equal split between retail...

Work Health Experts has joined group risk industry body Grid. Siera Torontow, managing director and co-founder of Work Health Experts, said: “We help reduce risk at source by building leadership capability, improving...

Chancellor of the exchequer John Healey has confirmed the Autumn Budget will take place on 28 October. In a video message Healey committed to a Budget that would “kickstart growth in every...

Captain Kirk has cancer.  William Shatner, who played the original Star Trek space adventurer, has been diagnosed with melanoma, which has spread to his lungs and brain.  Furthermore, the diagnosis came while...

Andy Stephenson, a stalwart of the group risk sector who has just retired from his role as senior account manager at Aviva, speaks to Health & Protection about starting out as a...