Employee Benefits

More than a quarter of a million people are claiming Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) because of mental and behavioural disorders, research has revealed.

COVER's editor Paul Robertson introduces the new website and invites you to come in and nose around.

Cigna is set to extend its coverage of mental health conditions across the entire product range.

Doctors have hit back at proposals that would force them to encourage patients to stay in or go back to work as soon as possible.

Ellipse has agreed a deal with a children's bereavement charity to provide counselling services for all group life claimants.

Jelf has warned that many of the key recommendations of the Sickness Absence Review are unlikely to ever be realised and called its decision to ignore income protection (IP) as ‘madness'.

The imminent introduction of auto-enrolment looks set to trigger increased investment in employee benefits, according to research from Group Risk Development (Grid).

Absence management procedures have not kept pace with technology and the way Britain works, resulting in serious welfare, management and productivity issues, a new report has said.

Canada Life has revealed that almost half of its small scheme new business is being done online.

Mental health claims are growing and now make up a third of all those received on group income protection (GIP) policies, according to Legal & General.