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Simplyhealth has published a fact sheet on the tax implications of providing health benefits to staff, with a focus on large employers.

John Ritchie of Ellipse notes the beginning of the end for price matching.

Aviva is introducing an excess healthcare trust option to its corporate private medical insurance offering.

Employers are increasingly becoming benefit facilitators rather than benefit providers, Swiss Re's Group Watch survey finds.

A survey of financial directors has found over a third of businesses will continue to increase their budgets for employee benefits.

Dropping private healthcare for employees because of rising costs can do more harm than good to a company's finances, according to Gallagher Employee Benefits.

Private Medical Insurance (PMI) provider WPA has released evidence the tax treatment of its Corporate Deductible schemes is sanctioned by the taxman.

Group Risk Development (Grid) has released the first ever full set of collated claims figures from the group risk industry.

More than a quarter of a million people are claiming Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) because of mental and behavioural disorders, research has revealed.

Employers are embracing the removal of the default retirement age (DRA) but the majority are unaware of the opt-out for group risk benefits.