Group Risk

As we end Grief Awareness Week, Laura Young, head of HR & development at AIG Life, speaks to Health & Protection about losing her mum to vascular dementia, using Smart Health to...

As Grief Awareness Week concludes, Sophie Cook, PR and external comms manager at Unum, speaks to Health & Protection about losing her father to Parkinson's, gaining support from Unum's own employee assistance...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has confirmed that the private medical insurance and protection insurance advice sectors will not form part of its Advice Guidance Boundary Review. In last year's Autumn Statement,...

Health & Protection senior reporter Graham Simons has been named Protection Journalist of the Year by the Protection Review. His award was announced at the Protection Review Awards in London last night....

The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) has already begun seeing cases brought to it which encompass elements of the Consumer Duty regulations introduced in July. And it expects to see more complaints regarding...

The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) is planning to cut its compulsory levy by which is paid for by all financial services firms to £70m for the 2024/25 financial year. The figure will...

Swiss Life has appointed chief financial officer Matthias Aellig as group CEO. He will succeed Patrick Frost, who will step down on 16 May next year after almost a decade in the...

Fintel, the parent company of Simplybiz, has acquired Synaptic Software. Synaptic services more than 1,600 advisers, providing due diligence research, compliance tools, and software, including Pathways and Webline, which streamlines clients’ journeys....

Advisers have not had it easy these past few years. The pandemic combined with a cost of living crisis and Consumer Duty compliance has meant they are working in perhaps more pressurised...

With fewer than one in five people having income protection (IP) insurance it may seem peculiar to read about the risk of people having too much IP. It is important to talk...