Group Protection

Scottish Provident paid out 93% of all critical illness claims in 2012.

All Canada Life's group income protection clients will now have access to its rehabilitation and on site claims team, nearly doubling the amount of employees covered.

Are employee benefit communications with staff all 'gadrags and handbags', asks John Ritchie.

Mental health is now the biggest cause of claim in group risk markets. Katharine Moxham outlines the scale of the problem.

A rehabilitation case management firm has expanded its immediate medical assessment (IMA) service for insurers and solicitors to deliver benefits.

More than half of employers would be encouraged to offer group benefits if the government offered tax incentives, a survey has reported.

Personal Group has made changes to its Voluntary Group Income Protection (VGIP) plan, increasing the maximum benefit and improving its occupation definition to Own Occupation.

One in four (23%) of the 325,000 newly diagnosed cancer patients in the UK - an estimated 70,000 patients each year - lack support from family and friends during their treatment and recovery, according to Macmillan Cancer Support.

Protection advisers need to help clients identify health risks to negotiate lower premiums, online health and wellbeing service vielife has said.

Legal & General has partnered with a national charity to help employers minimise absences due to staff mental health problems.