LIFE/RISK

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Individual disability income insurance as the worst hit risk product at a loss of $1.4 billion over the year to March 2020, according to data. ...

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The efforts of many clients and their life/risk advisers to write Agreed Value income protection cover before the 1 April deadline were stymied by the job COVID-19 job lo...

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Financial Services Council member life insurers won’t deny total and permanent disability claims for those who lost employment because of COVID-19....

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Private equity firm, TA Associates has signed a strategic growth investment in commercial insurance broker, Honan Insurance Group....

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Consumers of all ages are adopting a “millennial mindset” and established insurers must digitise and draw upon partners to retain market share from bigtech entrants. ...

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Life insurers have responded to a call to arms from Synchron to demonstrate how they are protecting customers during the COVID-19 pandemic. ...

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The last vestiges of the Commonwealth Bank’s involvement in life insurance has ended with its exit from its 80% stake in an Indonesian life business....

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Amid suggestions by the Australian Financial Complaints Authority that the Activities of Daily Living regime is “very tough”, the major insurers have flagged key changes ...

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Life insurance commissions should be retained in the life/risk industry with no change to their structure, according to major insurer ClearView....

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Data needs to be collected on the fees paid to lawyers on group life insurance claims, according to the Association of Financial Advisers....

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New research has revealed that many Australians would ditch their life insurance cover while maintaining house and car insurance if faced with financial distress....

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Life insurers should be prepared to go further than their own Life Insurance Code of Conduct to help clients impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Australia...

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