Unum

Government should encourage greater take-up of income protection (IP) to relieve the burden on the taxpayer and Treasury and improve attitudes to the welfare state, MPs heard yesterday.

Unum has launched Sick Pay Insurance (SPI), a new group protection product to help employers and employees manage short breaks from work due to illness and injury.

Employee benefits must be overhauled as they have failed to adapt to a changing workforce leaving workers financially exposed, a report has urged.

Half of workers assume their boss would foot the bill for long-term sick leave.

Tax relief for businesses for health interventions is a great start, says Unum's John Letizia, but we should push for more

The excessive complexity of many financial products has dogged the financial services industry for as long as anyone can remember. I hope the publication of Carol Sergeant's Review of Simple Financial Products proves to be a watershed for the industry...

The simple products report could be the catalyst of a "clear blue water" reputation for income protection, despite its exclusion from the first phase of products, Unum has said.

A new app designed to help employers rebalance their employee benefits package to the advantage of their business and staff has been launched by Unum.

A report, by Oxford Economics with Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres and insurer Unum, reveals as many as 63,000 people living with cancer today want to work, but are encountering barriers that prevent them from doing so.

Unum has launched a website to help advisers communicate the benefits of income protection to clients.