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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.

Unum has urged advisers to join it in targeting the ‘underserved' SME market to grow their income protection (IP) business.

Unum is to leave the individual protection market from 2 March.

COVER is proud to announce that Aviva, LV=, PruHealth, PruProtect and Simplyhealth are sponsoring its new website.

Ellipse has agreed a deal with a children's bereavement charity to provide counselling services for all group life claimants.