Group Protection

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.

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?