Planning strategically for changes in group markets will be key for doing business next year, according to group risk provider Ellipse.
Employers have been up spending on benefits in spite of auto-enrolment costs, Group Risk Development (GRiD) has reported.
Alexander Forbes Healthcare and Risk has launched a well-being programme to beat the rise in UK poor health.
PruHealth has partnered with Mercer to launch an index that will measure employer and employee health.
Almost three-quarters of group income protection claimants were returned to work within the deferred period last year, according to figures from Legal and General.
Bupa has made a series of changes to its SME health insurance product, Bupa Select.
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.