Group Protection

Businesses are seeing budgets stretched in many ways, but, as Owain Thomas found, advisers who are creative with solutions could produce a windfall for themselves in the group critical illness market

Employers should make changes to their group income protection policies following the abolition of the default retirement age and increases in state pension ages, Legal & General is to warn.

With the advent of consultant charging, group risk offers a valuable opportunity for advisory firms to achieve significant additional income, research has found.

More than a quarter of private sector employers are looking to reduce employee benefit costs by cutting holiday entitlement for staff, according to new research.

The team leading the government's sickness absence review has said it is keen to learn what the insurance industry can offer to improve the current management of absence.

Intermediaries are overwhelmingly (91%) in favour of commission options in the group insurance market, Canada Life Group Insurance has said.

Unum is challenging six UK bloggers to live on Employment Support Allowance (ESA) for one week to highlight the importance of workers protecting their income.

Aviva has appointed new director for health and group risk at its UK business.

Some providers are increasingly targeting workplace and employer based routes to market. Is this going to become more common and should advisers be doing more in this area?

Government and the protection industry must seize this window of opportunity if the welfare reform agenda is to succeed, a Group Risk Development (Grid) roundtable has concluded.