Recession impacting on EAPs says Canada life

Speaking at the Canada Life ISMA UK 2009 conference entitled ‘A Changing World - Stressing the Positives', Colin Micklewright, head of group income protection business development at the provider, outlined two ways in which the current economic crisis has impacted on the claims data for EAP programmes across the group risk market. Micklewright revealed that to date in 2009 there had been an increase in the amount of claims for cancer treatment. He said: "What I am surprised to see is that so many of the claims we have had this year are not stress, anxiety or depression but are for can...