LIFE/RISK

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CBA has acknowledged that it was not frank and open in a dispute with the Financial Ombudsman Service, the Royal Commission has been told....

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Freedom’s retention practices make it “unnecessarily difficult to cancel [insurance] policies” with just 28.5 per cent of customers trying to cancel funeral insurance cov...

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Freedom received 72 cancellation calls a day from customers for its funeral insurance policy over a 13-month period, with 13 per cent of those calls coming during the fir...

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Australian insurers are behind their international counterparts in readiness for new major new accounting standards, a survey by KPMG has shown....

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Freedom chief operating officer Craig Orton has admitted to the Royal Commission that aggressive insurance sales practices within his organisation led to poor customer ou...

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Freedom ended dubious sales practices for four insurance products just days before appearing before the Royal Commission, then failed to disclose this information to the ...

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With insurance sales practices proving a focus of the Royal Commission’s current hearings, the Commission has heard of how Freedom sold a disabled man funeral insurance a...

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The Royal Commission has heard of the issues which gave rise to ClearView closing its Direct business including ‘random incentive days’ and trips to Queenstown, New Zeala...

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The Royal Commission has pointed to flaws and inconsistencies in the regulatory environment around life insurance, including that there is no penalty capable of being imp...

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ClearView has confirmed that its direct life sales agents had access to commissions of up to $8,000 if they exceeded 250 per cent of their sales directs....

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In a hearing littered by admissions of wrongdoing by Clearview, the Royal Commission has heard the insurer’s chief risk officer, Gregory Martin, detail how the firm breac...

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The practice of offering “downgraded” life insurance products has come under the spotlight at the Royal Commission, with Clearview questioned over its practice of offerin...

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