Canada Life Group Insurance has chosen AXA PPP healthcare to provide employee support services to its 2.7m insured employees in 23,500 employer-funded schemes
Fiona Murphy analyses how the restriction of salary sacrifice tax-free benefits will affect employee benefits.
Group Risk trade body GRiD said it was disappointed that the Autumn Statement provided no exemption for Group Life or Income Protection as changes to salary sacrifice schemes were announced today. Group Risk trade body GRiD said it was disappointed...
Chancellor Philip Hammond has restricted the tax-free benefits offered by salary sacrifice schemes - a move that is set to save the government more than £1bn by 2022.
Musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions account for a high proportion of the value of claims on corporate schemes - typically 35 to 40% of the total claims spend - and are also responsible for around 33m days sickness absence per year, according to research....
The UK Group Risk market - more employees and premiums, but still too few employers writes Paul Avis.
Mike Tyler has been appointed to Head of Lockton International Benefits, as the world's largest privately owned insurance broker "continues to see increased client demand for benefits services."
How a society treats its disabled and sick workers is increasingly an economic as well as a social issue. So it is encouraging to see the Government start to address both with its recent Green paper on 'Improving Lives, writes Huw Evans, director general...
Research from Group Risk Development (GRiD) shows that the majority of employers overestimate the cost of group risk financial protection for their staff. Katharine Moxham discusses this in more depth.
Aon Employee Benefits warns that employers insuring Group Income Protection benefits need to be ready for upcoming reductions to state provision.