Group Protection

Friends Life has made two senior protection appointments including poaching Ageas' head of sales.

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.

Workplace stress has reached a four-year high with British workers being the most stressed compared to colleagues in some of the world's biggest economies, a new report has found.

Businesses and government need to issue a "clear and consistent message from the top that work is good for you", the co-author of the Sickness Absence Review has said.

The government is seeking to cut half a million people from the disability benefits list when the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) is introduced.

The Reinsurance Group of America (RGA) is once again issuing its set of popular Top Trumps-style cards designed to help demystify critical illness (CI).

Medical evidence used to decide claimants' eligibility for state benefits is frequently ‘seriously inaccurate', the Citizens' Advice Bureau (CAB) has revealed.

The government has suffered a significant setback in its welfare reform agenda after the House of Lords defeated three of the coalition's main proposals.

Businesses risk alienating their staff by not offering a compassionate approach to absence management, new research has found.

Employees are more likely to have been absent from work due to personal reasons than because of sickness, new research has revealed.