Protection

Succession Employee Benefit Solutions is the latest intermediary firm to join industry body Group Risk Development (Grid). The firm, which the employee benefits division of Succession Wealth, said joining Grid would give...

Scottish Widows has added a new virtual GP service to its Protect product.  The service, which is offered through Square Health, is available via an app and offers customers access to virtual...

More than 8m 22-44 year-olds are considering income protection and 7 per cent of this age group have acquired a protection product in the last three months, according to research from protection...

Six out of 10 financial service companies have increased the number of women working at a senior management level over the past year, according to the latest Treasury report on this issue....

Royal London has paid out £13.1m in Covid-related claims since the start of the pandemic.  The insurer published these figures after industry-wide data showed that the industry as a whole has paid...

LV= has paid out over £12m in Covid-relating claims to date, supporting more than 1,400 policyholders and their families. This covers life insurance, critical illness and income protection claims. The first Covid-related...

After a year of staying at home and working remotely as companies battle to maintain businesses through lockdowns it is easy to forget how quickly and effectively organisations have adapted. Office for...

Almost 900 dependants received pay-outs following Covid-related deaths of workers covered by group life in the period to the end of 2020, says Group Risk Development. Pay outs to this group of...

Almost a quarter of UK office workers don’t take any breaks during their working day, apart from lunch breaks, and 46 per cent of people said that their employers and line managers...

Uber’s decision to extend pension to 70,000 employees, alongside sickness insurance cover creates an opportunity to deliver group protection benefits to millions of gig workers says Legal & General. The ride hailing...