Group Protection

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.

Friends Life has made premium rate reductions of up to 6% for sums assured of £30,000 and above on its Protect+ critical illness policy.

Group protection specialist Unum has launched an application - ‘The Perkulator' - which enables people to calculate how much their benefits package is worth, based on simple information they provide.

LifeSearch has recently released a code of conduct it would like all protection sellers to adhere to. Should there be such a code and what does it say about this market that it should originate from an intermediary rather than a provider?

Selling group products on price will leave advisers open to client poaching, writes Paul Avis. So, are group risk advisers operating a smart business model?

Friends Life paid 90% of claims under its critical illness plans last year., 1,565 claims admitted and processed out of 1,733.

Legal & General paid a total of £441 million combined death and critical illness claims in 2011, up from £373 million in 2010 and a new record for the firm.

The Government is set to curb welfare bills by £10bn over the next four years.

Budget 2012 statement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Rt Hon George Osborne MP