comminsure

Policy & Regulation

ASIC admits few complaints about claims handling

ASIC deputy chairman, Peter Kell, has admitted that prior to issues around CommInsure, it had received few complaints about life insurance claims handling....

Editorial

Is ASIC up to it?

ASIC has signalled it will be closely examining the claims-handling of the major life/risk insurers, but Mike Taylor asks whether the regulator is simply the policeman wh...

Superannuation

CommInsure withdraws from claims-handling panel

CommInsure has withdrawn from a conference panel on claims handling to put its own claims handling issues right....

Financial planning

FSC alters Code of Practice amid CommInsure fall-out

Key consumer groups have been given a chair at the table of the FSC’s Life Insurance Code of Practice processes....

Financial planning

CommInsure upgrades heart attack definitions

CommInsure has updated its product offering around heart attack and severe rheumatoid arthritis, following scandals reported in the media this week....

Financial planning

CommInsure claims placed under Senate scrutiny

The Government has backed the claims against CommInsure being referred to an expanded Senate Committee at the same time as endorsing a full-blown ASIC investigation....