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...

The Financial Services Council has welcomed a regulator’s positive review on the role of the FSC Life Insurance Code of Practice in the sale of direct life insurance, whi...

A background paper on the sale of life/risk products provided to the Royal Commission has suggested life/risk advisers recommend in-house products in return for lower dea...

TAL, CommInsure, AMP and ClearView have been named to front the next round of hearings of the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financia...

Life insurer, TAL, has announced a partnership with Orygen, a national organisation focusing on mental-ill health in young people....

Colonial First State retained CommInsure as its group insurer despite it performing poorly against a number of industry benchmarks but that may change following the sale ...

New research from Roy Morgan has shown only 6.1 per cent of risk and life insurance policy holders looking to switch providers are doing so upon the advice of a broker or...

Self-regulation would not be an adequate protection if life insurers were permitted to participate in worker rehabilitation, according to mental health body, beyondblue....

New player in the Australian life insurance sector, NEOS Life, has launched its retail life insurance offer, which will be distributed through financial advisers....

ANZ Bank New Zealand has agreed to sell OnePath Life NZ for NZ$700 million to specialist insurance business Cigna Corporation....

There would need to be an alignment of the various state and territory workers’ compensation jurisdictions to enable life insurers to participate in getting injured worke...

MLC Life Insurance has told a Parliamentary Joint Committee that life insurers should be allowed to contribute more to worker rehabilitation, albeit with clear limitation...

Australian insurtechs don’t believe industry incumbents are embracing start-up innovation fast enough, according to a new report....

The Australian Council of Trade Unions has criticised calls for private life insurers to be allowed a greater role in worker rehabilitation claiming it is part of a Finan...