Group Protection

Friends Life has increased the commission advisers receive on its income protection policies by approximately 15% in a bid to bring it into line with commission received on critical illness and life products.

Three-quarters of employees suffering with stress related problems are able to return to work within six months, according to Legal & General data.

John Ritchie of Ellipse notes the beginning of the end for price matching.

Older workers are set to play an increasing role in the workplace and employers need to respond with more flexible working practices and better recruitment strategies, new research finds.

Employers could have powers to forcibly retire employees at 65, the Supreme Court has ruled, throwing into doubt the abolition of the default retirement age.

KEVIN CARR

The group life market may be in robust health, but it does face an array of conditions driving change. Edward Murray investigates the developments that lie in store over the next year.

Group Risk Development (Grid) has hailed Swiss Re's group risk market report as "most encouraging."

Employers are increasingly becoming benefit facilitators rather than benefit providers, Swiss Re's Group Watch survey finds.

Financial directors' hold "ridiculous" expectations for the return on investment of their healthcare benefits and sickness absence spend, the Work Foundation has said.