Income Protection

The benefits of group risk products are not widely recognised by HR professionals, Canada Life Group Insurance has suggested.

Almost half (45%) of UK employers considered stress and mental illness a major cause of long-term employee absence; according to research.

Unum has launched a group income protection (group IP) product for companies preparing for pension auto-enrolment.

Employee Benefit Consultants (EBCs) are forecasting growth in the group income protection (Group IP) market with one in three expecting to increase sales this year, research has found.

Employers understand group income protection (GIP) best when they have a financial adviser or employee benefits consultant as their main source of information, but otherwise ignorance is widespread, according to Canada Life Group Insurance statistics....

Richard Walsh considers what an assisted dying bill could mean for life insurance.

Friends Life will be raising awareness of how businesses support employees who have cancer at a conference attended by NHS staff.

An upcoming change in business law may result in UK firms struggling to contain sickness costs, Canada Life Group Insurance has said.

The Finance Bill's announcement that tax relief will be introduced for employees referred to occupational therapy is to be "welcomed"; Unum has said.

Generali UK has upgraded its employee assistance programme (EAP), allowing all UK employees of its group income protection (GIP) policyholders to benefit from the scheme.