The text book, The Practice of Life Assurance, by Coe and Ogborn, pp. 367–9, and the references there to other literature, give a brief summary of the subject of group life assurance; this paper attempts to bring out in more detail a little of the practice (of some U.K. offices) and some of the special problems that belong to the subject, for the benefit of students who have no practical experience of it. There is no dearth of literature on pension schemes, with which group life contracts are very often linked, so that reference to pension schemes in this paper, though necessary, will be brief.