Life insurance claim payments have jumped by 10.7 per cent over the last 12 months, breaking through $4 billion in claim payments, according to new figures released by th...

Mental illness is one of the leading causes of death in Australia and insurers must help to address this issue. CommInsure’s Tim Browne points to a number of topics on th...

Younger Australians are more likely to say they have life insurance than those nearing retirement, according to new research conducted by TAL. ...

A Sydney insurance broker has been permanently banned from providing financial services following an investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission...

FSC chief executive John Brogden has once again called upon the life insurance industry to heed ASIC’s warning and self-regulate on churn while it can....

Life insurance companies like to market themselves as trustworthy brands, but that is not addressing the problem at hand, writes Col Fullagar....

The increasing frequency of natural disasters bring with it immediate and long-term health effects that insurers and advisers must address, writes Michael Browne....

Synchron’s Don Trapnell calls for proof to justify ASIC’s concern on churn....

There have been too many bad practices with respect to churn for the regulator to abandon this issue, according to ASIC Commissioner Peter Kell....

John Brogden said the industry’s failure to self-regulate on churn carries the risk of regulator action....

The pattern of year-on-year growth for risk sales has been repeated in 2012, according to DEXX&R....