LIFE/RISK

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Shifting community standards and expectations are driving eight new trends in life insurance which may cost policyholders over $1 billion, according to a new report....

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It will be early next year before Suncorp completes the sale of its life insurance business to TAL....

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Within two months of the Banking Royal Commission’s insurance hearings decimating Freedom Insurance, its chief executive, Craig Orton, has announced he will step down for...

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The Financial Services Council wants to extend its insurance code of conduct to “all life insurance distributors”....

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AMP Limited has pointed to an Australian Securities Exchange decision as vindicating the nature of its insurance sale transaction with Resolution Life....

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ANZ OnePath has rebuilt its insurance underwriting engine, the ultimate endgame of which is to give clients a policy in real time....

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As the insurers scramble to navigate increasing mental health concerns, the Australian Psychological Society has called on them to “urgently” address discrimination again...

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The Federal Government has been urged to drop the minimum age for automatic insurance cover inside superannuation to 21, rather than age 25....

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The Financial Services Council has announced that it will place a moratorium on genetic tests for life insurance from July 2019....

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The Australian Lawyers Alliance wants the Royal Commission to inject more transparency into insurance within superannuation to create awareness of sub-standard policy ter...

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Plaintiff law firm, Maurice Blackburn has labelled the Financial Services Council’s failed bid to have life/risk insurers allowed involvement in worker rehabilitation as ...

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The Joint Parliamentary Committee on Corporations and Financial Services has rebuffed an FSC proposal to allow life/risk insurers to participate in getting injured worker...

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