Group Risk

Most employees believe employers should receive tax incentives for offering insurance benefits - including health and income protection cover - to their staff. This is according to a survey of 2,000 UK...

Start-up health and protection advice firm Alltoogether is imminently launching a fundraising round to begin its growth and expansion plans with an aim to more than double its current team. Founder Zak...

Health resilience improved globally in 2022, with 78% of protection needs covered by insurance – an increase from 77.5% in 2021, according to Swiss Re. However, mortality protection fell widening the gap...

The Insurance Premium Tax (IPT) collected by HM Treasury increased by around £100m to £1.8bn for the first two months of the tax year, according to consultancy OAC. The figure is a...

Vicky Keene, vice president at Lockton and chairwoman of Lockton's Pride Committee, speaks to Health & Protection about coming out in what was then a very conservative industry, the importance of LGBT...

Vitality has called for organisations to be mandated to report on the health of their workforces and their impact on society, with key performance indicators (KPIs) to be tied to outcomes. The...

The typical health and life insurance model of exclusions must be overhauled to cover more conditions and people, particularly those in vulnerable situations, and make prevention a core aim, according to insurers...

Axa and the Association of British Insurers (ABI) have called for life and health insurers to consider disinvesting and disengaging from the tobacco industry and other companies whose businesses do significant harm...

Broadstone has hired Alex McNiven as business protection specialist, joining the consultancy from A-One Insurance Group. He will join Broadstone in its in rapidly growing employee benefits consulting division. McNiven has 17...

Equipsme founder and managing director Matthew Reed has visited Downing Street three times meeting prime ministerial advisers to campaign for the removal of P11D tax on employee health benefits. In an exclusive...