employee benefits

Health Assured has unveiled a new employer centred private medical insurance (PMI) policy.

New business opportunities will arise for advisers as higher unemployment historically follows an economic recovery, IN Partnership's Kevin McDonagh says.

Consumers and businesses are looking ahead to 2010 with a degree of optimism, and this positive thinking is also alive and well within the broker profession.

96 per cent of British workers underestimate the true amount that employers spend on employee benefits, according to employee benefits specialists Aon Consulting.

Paul Robertson talks to Ian Bird about the little known benefits that many companies offer their staff and the more cost effective products on offer to them

Foster Denovo envisages the market will continue to experience similar challenges in the first half of 2010, and employers are going to be continually working to keep costs down.

Legal & General (L&G) has increased the maximum benefit on its Group Income Protection scheme from £300,000 to £350,000 for all new and switching schemes.

Nearly one in four employers has reduced their benefit costs by introducing a flexible benefits scheme, according to a survey of UK employers conducted by Mercer.

Communicating a policy's peripheral benefits can add the edge that intermediaries need to make the sale, says Dominic Howard

Absence management specialist FirstCare, has acquired Active Health Partners (AHP) increasing the employees it services by 80%.